Clafs IV. Reb Rw Caer Q1t 
Genus XXVIII, The edges of the gill-covers 
ferrated. 
Seven branchioftegous rays. 
Body covered with rough fcales. 
Firft dorfal fin fpiny; the fecond 
foft *, 
il}; The P 
Tlegxn Arif. Hift. an. hb. vi. 
CG. 14. 
Perca Saloni Mofella. 115. 
Une Perche de riviere. elon. 
291. 
ee fluviatilis. Rondel fluviat. 
196. Ge/uer. pifc. 698. 
Fin Barfs. Schonevelde. 55. 
A Perch. Wil. Icth. 291. Raii 
Sy» pife- 97+ 
PERCH. 
Ban Roan i@ aaah 
Perca lineis utrinque fex tranf- 
verfis nigris, pinnis ventra- 
libus rubris. Arted. /ynon. 66. 
Perca fluviatilis. P. pinnis dor~ 
falibus diftinétis, fecunda ra- 
diis fedecim. Lin, /yf. 481.6 
Gronov. Zooph. No. 301. 
Abborre. Faun. fuec. No. 332. 
Perfchling, Barfchieger. Kram. 
334. Wulff Bornfs, No. 27. 
HE perch of Ariftotle and Aufonius is the 
fame with that of the moderns. 
That men- 
tioned by Oppian, Pliny, and Athenzeus**, is a fea- 
fifh probably of the Labrus or Sparus kind, being 
enumerated by them among fome congenerous fpe- 
cies. Our perch was much efteemed by the Ro- 
Mans : 
Nec te delicias menfarum Perca, filebo 
Amnigenos inter pifces dignande marinis. Avsonius, 
* The Rufé is an exception, having only one dorfal fin, but 
the fourteen firlt rays of it are fpiny. 
** Oppian Halieut. 1, 124. Plinii lib. ix. c. 16. Atheneeus 
Gib. Vil. Pp: 319. 7 
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