Class IV. 



COMMON PERCH. 



345 



GENUS XXXV. PERCH. 



Gill-covers edges of serrated. 

 Rays branchiostegous seven. 

 Body covered with rough scales. 

 Fin first dorsal spiny -, the second soft.* 



Xlifxij. Arid. Hist. an. Lib. 



vi. c. 14. 

 Perca Ausonii Mosella, 115. 

 Une Perche de riviere. Belon 



291- 



Perca fluviatilis. Rondel. Jiu- 

 viat 196. Gesner pise. 698. 



Ein Barss. Schonevelde, 55. 



A Perch. Wil. Ichtk. 2Q1. 

 Raii syn. pise. 97. 



Perca lineis utrinque sex trans- 

 versis nigris, pinnis ventra- 

 libus rubris. Arted. synon. 

 66. 



Perca fluviatilis. P. pinnis 

 dorsalibus distinctis, secun- 



da radiis sedecim. Lin. syst, 1, Commons 



481. Gm. Lin. 1306. Gro* 



nov. Zooph. No. 301. 

 Abboree. Faun. Suec. No. 



332. 

 Perschling, Barschieger.iTrajw. 



384. Wulff. Boruss. No. 27. 

 La Perche de riviere. Duhamel 



Tr. des Pesches. iii. Q8.sect. 



5. tab. 5. Jig. 3. 

 La Perche. Block ichth. ii. 62. 



tab,. 52. 

 La Perseque Perche. De la 



Cepede Hist, des Poissons, 



iv. 395. 



X HE perch of Aristotle and Ausonius is the 

 same with that of the moderns. That men- 



* The Ruffe and Black Perch are exceptions, having only one 

 dorsal fin, but the first rays of it are spiny. 



