Class IV. 



GUDGEON, 



The tail is quite even at the end, and very 

 broad. 



361" 



Gobio. Aufonius Mofella, 132. 

 Gobio fluviatilis. Sahian, 



214. 

 Goujoti de riviere. Belon, 



322. 

 Gobio fluviatilis. Rondel, fin- 



'viat. 206, Gefner pifc. 399. 

 Gudgeon. WiL Icth, 264. 



Rail fyn. pifc. 123. 



Cyprinus quincuncialis macu- 

 lofus, maxilla fuperiore lon- 

 giore cirris duobus ad r 

 Arted. fynon. 2. ' ' 



Cyprinus pinna ani radiis 2^, 

 Lin, Syji, Nat. 526. Gra- 

 no'v, Zooph, No. 329. 



168. Gud- 

 geon, 



yfRISTO'TLE mentions the gudgeon in two 

 -^^ places ; once as a river fifh, and again as a 

 fpecies th^t was gregarious : in a third place he 

 defer ibes it as a fea fifh ; we mud therefore confi- 

 der the '^^Qio^ he mentions, lib, IX. c, 2. and lib. 

 VIII. c, 19. as the fame with our fpecies*. 



This filh is generally found in gentle dreams, 

 and is of a fmall fize : thofe few, however, that 

 are caught in the Kenneth and Cok^ are three times 

 the weight of thofe taken elfewhere. The largefl 

 we ever heard of was taken near Uxbridge^ and 

 weighed half a pound. 



They bite eagerly, and are affembled by raking 

 the bed of the river; to this fpot they immediately 

 crov/d in flioals, expeding food from this dif- 

 turbance. 



* The gudgeon is enumerated among the Syrian iifh, by 

 Dr. Rufel, p, 7q. 



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