Clafs IV. BAS) See 212 
The colors are beautiful: the back and part of Color. 
the fides being of a deep green, marked with five 
broad black bars pointing downwards: the belly is 
white, tinged with red: the ventral fins of a rich 
fcarlet ; the anal fins and tail of the fame color, but 
rather paler. 
In a lake called Llyn_Raithlyn, in Merionethfhire, 
is a very fingular variety of perch: the back is quite 
hunched, and the lower part of the back bone, 
next the tail, f{trangely diftorted: in color, and in 
other refpects, it refembles the common kind, which 
are as numerous in the lake as thefe deformed fith. 
They are not peculiar to this water, for Linneus takes 
notice of a fimilar variety found at Fablun, in his 
own country. 
Hy The GA se 
Adbouk ? Arift. Hift. an. lib. A Baffe. Wil. Icth, 271. Raiét 
iV. c. 10. &€. Syn pife. 83+. ? 
Lupus ? Ovid. Halieut. 112. Perca radiis pinnz dorfalis fe- 
Le Bar, le Soup. Below. 113. cunda tredecim, ani quatu- 
Lupus. Rozdel. 268. Ge/ner pifc. ordecim. Arted. /ynon. 69. 
506. Perca Labrax. Lin. /yf?. 4826 
Gronov. Zooph. No. 300. 
HE baffle is a ftrong, active, and voracious 
fifh: Ovid calls them rapidi lupi, a name con- 
tinued to them by after-writers. 
That which we had an opportunity of examining 
was {mall ; but they are faid to grow to the weight 
of fifteen pounds, 
The 
Crooked 
Perch. 
Size, 
