BaGiy ROD AA CAR 311 
The back is of an olive color : the fides and belly 
‘of a gold color, with certain marks of red: the 
ventral and anal fins, and the tail, generally of a 
deep red: the tail forked. 
VII. The BR OA iC | ely 
La Gardon, Rofchie 2. en 4z- iride pinnis ventralibus ae 
 gleterre. Belon. 316. ani plerumque rubentibus. 
Leucifcus. Rondel. fluviat.191. Arted. fynon. 9, 10. 
Rutilus five Rubellus fluviati- Cyprinus Rutilus Cyp. pinna 
lis. Ge/ner pife. 820. ani radiis 12, rubicunda. 
Rottauge. Schonevelde. 63. Lin. fyft. 529. Mort. Faun. 
Roche. Wi). Icth.-262. Leucif- —_fuec. No. 372, 
cus prior. Rondel. 260. Raii Zert. Wulff Borufs. No. 59. 
Syn. pife. 122, 121. Altl. Kram. 395. 
Cyprinus /argus dictus. Cyp. 
OUND as a roach; is a proverb that appears to 
be but indifferently founded, that fifh being 
not more diftineuifhed for its vivacity than many 
others; yet it is ufed by the french as well as us, 
who compare people of {trong health to their Gar- 
don, our rocah. 
It is a common fifh, found in many of our deep 
{till rivers, affecting, like the others of this genus, 
quiet waters. It is gregarious, keeping in large 
fhoals. We have never feen them very large. Old 
Walton fpeaks of fome that weighed two pounds. 
In a lift of fith fold in the Londov markets, with the 
ereateft weight of each, communicated to us by an 
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