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L O C H E. 



Class IV. 



Sect. IV 



A B D O M I N A L. 



xxxir. 



L O CHE. 



Eyes in the upper part of the head. 

 Aperture to the gills clofed below. 

 Several beards on the end of the upper jaw. 

 Body of almofl an equal thicknefi. 

 One dorfal fin. 



D. 



142. Beard- La Loche franche. Bc-Iofi, 321. 

 Cobitis barbatula. RondcL 



fiuwiat. 204. 

 Cobitis fluviadlis barbatula. 



Gefner pzfc, 404. 

 Smerling, Smerle. Schone- 



'veldey 31. 



Cobitis tota glabra maculofa, 

 corpore fubtereti. Arted, 

 fy7icn. 2- 



Cobitis Barbatula. C. cirris 



fex capite inermi compreflb, 



Lin. Jyji. 499. Gro7io-v, 



Zocph, No. "202. 



Loche, ■ or Groundling. Wil, Gronling. Faun Suec. No. 341 . 



Icth. 265. Raii fjn. fife. Grundel. Kram. 396. Wulff, 

 124. Borzi/s. No. 40. 



THE loche is found in feveral of our fmall 

 rivers, keeping at the bottom on the gra- 

 vel, and is on that account, in fome places, called 

 the Groundling: it is frequent on the ftream near 

 Amejhury., in JViltJhire^ where the fportfmen, through 

 frolick, fwallow it down alive in a glafs of white 

 wine. 



The largeft we ever heard of was four inches 

 and three quarters in length, but they feldom arrive 



to that fize. 



The 



