Clafs IV. i: OF OV) Et 237 
Bee hV. A BD) Oo My TAN Ave, 
Genus XX XIII. Eyes in the upper part of the head. 
Aperture to the gills clofed below. 
Several beards on the end of* the 
upper jaw. 
Body of almoft an equal thicknefs. 
One dorfal fin. Locue, 
ue ‘Ehe Dry Oe ORB Fs bye d OF 
LaLoche franche. Belon. 321. corpore fubtereti. Arted. /j- 
Cobitis barbatula. Rondel. flu- om. 2. 
Viat. 204. Cobitis Barbatula. C. cirris fex 
Cobitis fluviatilis barbatula. capite inermi compreflo. 
Gefuer pife. 404. Lin. fyft. 499. Gronov. Zooph. 
Smerling, Smerle. Schoncvelde. No. 202. 
Bile Gronling. Faun. Juec. No. 341. 
Loche, or Groundling. Wil. Grundel. Kram. 396. Wulf. 
Icth. 265. Rati fyn. pifes 124. Borufs. No. 40. 
Cobitis tota glabra maculofa, 
HE loche is found in feveral of our finall rivers, 
keeping at the bottom on the gravel, and is 
on that account, in fome places, called the Ground- 
fing: it is frequent on the f{tream near Ame/bury, in 
Wiltfbire, where the fportfmen, thro’ frolick, {wallow 
it down alive in a glafs of white wine. 
The largeft we ever heard of was four inches and 
three quarters in length, but they feldom arrive to 
that fize. 
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