Class IV, BASSE. ±si 



Aa^fal? Arift. Hifl, an. lib. Rati fyn, pifc. 83. 1 25. BassS, 



IV. c. 10. &c. Perca radiis pinnse dorfalis fe= 



Lupus? O'vid. Halieut. 112. cundse tredecim, ani qua- 



Le Bar, le Loup. Belon, 113. tuox^ecim, Arted. Jynon, 6g, 



Lupus. Rondel, 268. Ge/ner Perca Labrax. Lin. fyft. 482. 



pifc. 506. Grono'u, Zooph. No. 300^ 



A Baffe. ml, Icth, 271. • 



'TpHE balTe is a ftrong^ adlive, and voracious 



"*' fifh : Ovid calls them rapidi lupi^ a name con- 

 tinued to them by after-writers. 



That which we had an opportunity of examining Sizeo 

 was fmall ; but they are faid to grow to the weight 

 of fifteen pounds. 



The irides are filvery : the mouth large : the teeth 

 are fituated in the jaws, and are very fmall : in the 

 roof of the mouth is a triangular rough fpace, and 

 juft at the gullet are two others of a roundifh form. 



The fcales are of a middling fize, are very thick 

 fet, and adhere clofely. 



The firft dorfal fin has nine flrorig fpiny rays, 

 of which the firft is the Ihorteft, the middlemoft 

 the higheft \ the fecond dorfal fin confifts of thir» 

 teen rays, the firft fpiny, the others foft. 



The peroral fins have fifteen foft rays 5 the ven- 

 tral fix rays, the firft fpiny: the anal fourteen rays^ 

 the three firft fpiny, the others foft : the tail is a 

 little forked. 



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