254 



PERCH. 



Class IV. 



XXVI. 



PERCH. 



The edges of the gill-covers ferrated. 

 Seven branchioftegous rays. 

 Body covered with rough fcales. 

 Firft dorfal fin fpiny ; the fecond foft 



324. Com- UsokYi Ariji. Hiji, an. Lib. 



MON. VI. C. 14. 



Perca Aufonii Mo/ella, 115. 

 Une Perche de riviere. Belon, 



291 

 Perca fluviatilis. Rondel, flu- 



'viat. 196. Gefner pifc. 6q%. 

 Ein Barfs. Schone'velde, 55. 

 A Perch. 1^x1. lah. 291. Rail 



fyn.pifc, 97. 

 Perca lineis utrinque fex 



nigns, pmnis 



rubris. Arted. 



tranfverfis 



ventralibus 



fynon. 66. 

 Perca fluviatilis. P. pinnis 



dorfalibus diftinftis, fecun- 



da radiis fedecim Lin.fyft^ 



481. Grono'u, Zooph. No. 



301. 

 Abboree. Faun.Suec.'No.^^z, 

 Perfchling, Barfchieger. Kram. 



384. WulffBoriifs. No. 27. 



THE perch of Ariftotle and Aufonius is the 

 fame with that of the moderns. That men- 

 tioned by Oppian^ Pliny ^ and Jthen^usf^ is a 

 fea-filh probably of the Labrus or Spams kind, 

 being enumerated by them among fome congene- 



* The Rtiffe is an exception, having only one dorfal fin, 

 but the fourteen firft rays of it are fpiny. 



t Oppian Halieut^ I, 124. Plinii Lib, IX, c, l6. Athenau$ 

 Lib. VU. /. 3I9« 



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