e838 GUDGHON Gieee 
Phe - Gp eee 
Gobio. Au/onius Mofella. 132. Cyprinus quincuncialis macu- 
Gobio fluviatilis. Salviaz, 214. — lofus, maxilla fuperiore lon- 
Goujon de riviere. Beloz. 322. giore cirris duobus ad Os. 
Gobio fluviatilis. Rozdel. flu- Arted. fyncn. 2. 
viat. 206. Gefner pife. 399 Cyprinus pinna ani radiis 2. 
Gudgeon. Wil. Icth. 264. Rati Lin. fy/?. Nat. 526. Gronov. 
Syn. pift. 123. Zooph. No. 329. 
(RISTOTLE mentions the gudgeon in two 
places ; once as a river fifh, and again as a 
fpecies that was gregarious: in a third place he de- 
fcribes it as a fea fifh; we muft therefore -confider 
the Kw€sos he mentions, /7d. ix. c. 2. and Hb. viil.c. 19. 
as the fame with our fpecies *. 
This fifh is generally found in gentle ftreams, 
and is of a {mall fize: thofe few, however, that are 
caught in the Kennet, and Cole, are three times the 
weight of thofe taken ellewhere. ‘The largeft we 
ever heard of was taken near Uxbridge, and weighed — 
half a pound. 
They bite eagerly, and are affembled by raking 
the bed of the river; to this-fpot they immediately 
crowd in fhoals, expecting food from this diftur- 
bance. | 
The fhape of: the body is thick and round: the 
irides tinged with red: the gill covers with green and 
filver : the lower jaw is fhorter than the upper: at 
each corner of the mouth is a fingle beard : the back 
“ The gudgeon is enumerated among the Syrian fith, by Dr. 
Rufel. p. 75. 
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