TION. 



352 BLACK PERCH. Class IV. 



figure, the teeth excepted. The other characters 

 must be borrowed from the description. 

 Descriiw " It is smooth, with very small thin scales, 

 " fifteen inches long, three quarters of an inch 

 " broad; head and nose like a peal or trout; 

 " little mouth ; very small teeth, beginning from 

 " the nose four inches and three quarters, near 

 " six inches long; a forked tail ; a large double 

 " nostril. Two taken at Loo, May 26, 1721, 

 " in the Sean, near the shore, in sandy ground 

 " with small ore weed."* 



* De la Cepede has divided this genus into three, distinguish- 

 ing the Perseque or Perch, from the Centropome, by its having 

 one or more spines on the gill-covers, and the Holocentre from 

 the others by its possessing only one dorsal fin. Ed. 



