348 BASSE PERCH. Class IV. 



not peculiar to this water, for Linnaus takes 

 notice of a similar variety found at Fahlun y in 

 his own country. I have also heard that they 

 are met with in the Thames near Marlotv. 



2. Basse. AdSga%> Arist. Hist. an. Ul. cundas tredecim, ani quato- 



iv. c. 10. &c. ordecim. Arted. synon. Qg. 



Lupus? Ovid. Halieut. 112. Perca Labrax. Lin. syst. 482. 



Le Bar, le Loup. Belon 113. Gronov. Zooph. No. 300. 



Lupus. Rondel. 268. Gesner Le Loup. Block ichth. ix. 45. 



pise. 506. tab. 301. 



A Basse. JVil. Ichth. 271- La Centropome Loup. De la 



Raii syn. pise. 83. Cepede Hist, des Poissons. 



Perca radiis pinnae dorsalis se- iv. 267. 



JL HE * basse is a strong, active, and voracious 

 fish : Ovid calls them rapidi lupi, a name con- 

 tinued to them by after-writers. 

 Descrip- That which we had an opportunity of exa- 

 mining was small ; but they are said to grow to 

 the weight of fifteen pounds, and, according to 

 Dukamel, even thirty pounds. The irides are 

 silvery ; the mouth large ; the teeth are situated 

 in the jaws, and are very small; in the roof of 

 the mouth is a triangular rough space, and just 



TION. 



* Block, and Dr. Shaw in his General Zoology, have classed 

 the Basse in the genus Scicena. Gmelin appears to have omit- 

 ted it in his edition of Linnceus. Ed. 



