Class IV. RUD CYPRINE. 479 



large; the sides flat and thin; the dorsal fin 

 has eleven rays, the second of which is the 

 longest; that fin, as well as all the rest, are 

 of a dusky color ; the back of the same hue ; 

 the sides yellowish ; the tail is very large, and 

 of the form of a crescent. 



Xafa£? Athenceus, lib. viii. Cyprinus Erythropthalmus. 6. Rui>. 



355. Oppian Halieut. i. 174. C. pinna ani radiis 15. pin- 

 La Plestia ? Belon, 30Q. La nis rubris. Lin. Syst. 530. 



Rosse, 319. Gm. Lin. 142Q. 



Finscale. Plot's Oxf. 184. Sarf. Isarf. Faun. Suec. No. 



Rutilus latior, seu Rubellio 366. 



fluviatilis a Rud, Roud, Le Rotengle. Block ichth. i. 



or Finscale. Wil. Ichth. 25. tab. 1. 



252. Raii syn. pise. 118. Le Cyprin rotengle. De la Ce- 



Cyprinus. Arted. synon. 6. pede Hist, des Poissons. v. 



No. 8. 583. 



XHIS fish is found in the Cherwell, near Ox- 

 ford, in the Witham in Lincolnshire, and in the 

 fens in Holderness. 



Its body is extremely deep, like that of the 

 bream, but much thicker. 



The head is small ; the irides yellow, vary- Descrip- 

 ing in some almost to redness; the nostrils 

 large; the back vastly arched, and sloping off 



TION. 



RUM ortu existunt, squamis conspicui crelris atque prceacutis, cla- 

 vorum caligarium effigie : nee amplius quam circa eum mensem, 

 visuntur. Lil.ix. c.lV 



