216 BLACK RUWEFE. » GCagim 
Iv. Th BLA CR Rape ee 
The Black Fifh. Mr. ago. Borlafe Cornwall. 271, tab. Xxv. 
Sg. 8. ‘ 
R. Fego has left fo brief a defcription of this 
fith, that we find difficulty in giving it a 
proper clafs: it agrees with the Ruffe in the form. 
of the body, and the {mallnefs of the teeth, in 
having a fingle extenfive fin on the back, a forked: 
tail, and being of that fection of bony fifh, termed 
Thoracic: thefe appear by the figure, the teeth ex- 
cepted. The other characters muft be borrowed 
from the defcription. 
“< It is {mooth, with very fmall thin fcales, fifteen 
‘‘ inches long, three quarters of an inch broad ;. 
“« head and nofe like a peal or trout; little mouth ; 
*< very fmall teeth, beginning from the nofe four 
“¢ inches and three quarters, near fix inches long; 
‘© a forked tail; a large double noftril. Twotaken 
« at Loo, May 26, 1721, in the Seas, near the 
*« fhore, in fandy ground with {mall ore weed.” 
Genus. 
