Class IV, 



BARBEL, 



ing downwards; the third ray of the anal fin is 

 conftruded in the fame manner. 



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Barb us. Aufonim Mofelia, 94. 

 Barbeau. Belon, 299. 

 Barbus, Barbo. Salvian, S6. 

 Barbus. Rondel, fiwviat. 194. 



Gefner pifc. 123. 

 Barbe, Barbie. Schone'veldey 



29. 

 Barbel. Wil. Icth. 259. 



Rati Jyn. pifc. 121. 

 Cypriims oblongus, maxilla 



fuperiore longiore, cirris 



quatuor, pinna ani ofiicu- i66.Bareei 



lorum feptem. Arted. fy~ 



-non. 8. 

 Cyprinus Barbus. C. pinna 



ani radiis 7. cirris 4. pinnse 



dorli radio fecundo utrin- 



queferrato. Lin.fyfi. 525. 



Gronov, Zooph. No. 331, 

 Barbe, Barbie. WulffBorufs. 



No, 52. 



THIS fifh was fo extremely coarfe, as to be 

 overlooked by the antients till the time of 

 Aufonius^ and what he fays is no panegyric on it; 

 for he lets us know it loves deep waters, and that 

 when it grows old it was not abfolutely bad. 



Laxos exerces Barbe natatus^ 

 "Tu melior pejore avo^ tihi contigit uni 

 Spirantum ex numero non inlaudata fene5fus. 



It frequents the ftill and deep parts of rivers^ 

 and lives in fociety, rooting like fwine with their 

 nofes in the foft banks. It is fo tame as to fuffer 

 itfelf to be taken with the hand ; and people have 

 been known to take numbers by diving for them. 

 In fummer they move about during night in fearch 



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