Class IV- 



ROACH, 



It is very deep and thick : the back is much 

 arched : the dorfal fin confifts of nineteen rays ; 

 the two firft flrong and ferrated. The peroral fins 

 have (each) thirteen rays^ the ventral nine*, the 

 anal feven or eight : the lateral line parallel with 

 the belly : the tail almoft even at the end. 



The color of the fifh in general is a deep yel- 

 low : the meat is coarfe, and little efteemed. 



3^i 



La Garden, Rofchie 2. en 

 Angleterre. Belony 316. 



Leucifcus. Rondel. Jlu^iat* 

 191. 



Rutilus five Rubellus fluvia- 

 tilis. Ge/ner pifc. 820. 



Rottauge. Schone^jeldey 6^. 



Roche. /Fz7. Ict^. 262. 

 Leucifcus prior. Rondel, 

 260. Raiijyn. pifc. 122, 

 121. 



Cyprinus fargtu diftus. Cyp. 

 iride pinnis ventralibus ac 

 ani plerumque rubentibus, 

 Arted. fynon. 9, 10. 



Cyprinus Rutilus. Cyp. pinna 

 ani radiis 12. rubicunda. 

 Lin. fyj}. 529. 



Mort. Faun. Suec. No. 372. 



Zert. WulffBorufs. No. 59. 



Altl, Krafn, 395. 



72. 



Roach, 



QOUND as a Roach^ is a proverb that appears 

 to be but indifferently founded, that lifli be- 

 ing not more diftinguifhed for its vivacity than 

 many others ^ yet it is ufed by the French as well 

 as us, who compare people of ftrong health to 

 their Gardon^ our roach. 



It is a common filh, found in many of our deep 

 flill rivers, affeding, like the others of this genus, 

 quiet waters. It is gregarious, keeping in large 

 fhoals. We have never fcen them very large. 



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