26o BLACK RUFFE. Class IV. 



iz%. Black. The Black Fifh. Mr. Jago. Borlafe Corn^walt, z-ji, 



Tab, XXV. fig, 8. 



MR. Jcigo has left fo brief a defcription of 

 this filli, that we find difficulty in giving it 

 a proper clafs : it agrees with the Ruffe in the form 

 of the body, and the fmaVlnefs of the teeth, in 

 having a fingle extenfive fin on the back, a forked 

 tail, and being of that fedlion of bony fifh, termed 

 Thoracic: thele appear by the figure, the teeth 

 excepted. The other charaders muft be borrowed 

 from the defcription. 



" It is fmooth, with very fmali thin fcales, fif- 

 " teen inches long, three quarters of an inch 

 *' broad •, head and nofe like a peal or trout ; 

 *' little mouth \ very fmall teeth, beginning from 

 '' the nofe four inches and three quarters, near 

 " fix inches long •, a forked tail ; a large double 

 *' noftril. Two taken 2xLoo^ May 26, 1721, in 

 " the Sean^ near the (hore, in fandy ground with. 

 " fmall ore weed," 



Three 



