LAN. 



BALLAN WRASSE. Class IV, 



the head, with the richeft colors, fuch as blue, 

 red, and yellow. Moft of this genus are fubjedt 

 to vary ; therefore care muft be taken not to mul- 

 tiply the fpecies from thefe accidental teints, but to 

 attend to the form which never alters. 



The Welch call this filh Gwrach^ or the old 

 woman ; the Fernch^ la Vieille j and the Englijh give 

 it the name of Old Wife, 



ti6 Bal= /-pHIS is a kind of Wraffe^ fent from Scar^ 



^ borough by Mr. Travis^ differing from the 

 other fpecies. They appear during fummer in 

 great fhoals off Filey- Bridge : the largeft weigh 

 about five pounds. 



It was of the form of the common wrajje, only 

 between the dorfal fin and the tail was a confider- 

 able finking : above the nofe was a deep fulcus : 

 on the fartheft cover of the gills was a deprefiion 

 radiated from the center. 



It had only four branchioflegous rays. 



The dorfal fin had thirty>one rays, twenty fpiny, 

 eleven foft-, the lad branched, and much longer 

 than the fpiny rays. 



The perioral fins had fourteen ; the ventral 

 fix ; the firft of which was fhort and fpiny : the 

 anal twelve ; the three firft fpiny, the nine others 

 branched and foft. 



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