FISHES. ABDOMINALES. 25. 26. 103 



ORDER IV. ABDOMINALES. ABDOMINAL. 



25. COBITIS. Locke. 



S9. C Barbatula. Yellowish-grey, with dusky variations : 

 unarmed, compressed, with 6 beards. 



Common LocIk . Br. Zool. t. ,58. Donovan t. 22. . 



Body 3 or 4 inches long : head sloping, obtufe, with 4 beards on 

 the upper-lip and one at each angle of the mouth : upper-jaw a little 

 longer : lateral-line straight : dorfal-fin fpotted, 9-rayed ; pectoral 

 fpotted, 11-rayed; ventral white, 8; anal white, 7; tail broad, 

 fpotted, 19-rayed. 



90. C. Tcenia. Yellowish-grey, with dusky spots : head 

 compressed, with a forked spine beneath each eye, 

 and 6 beards. 



Groundling. Block i. p. 216. tab. 31 ./. 1 . 



Found in the clear streams of Wiltshire with the last, from 

 which it principally differs, in being fomething larger, and in hav- 

 ing a double fpine each side the head a little before the eyes. 



26. SALMO. Salmon, 



91. S. Salar. Silvery-grey, with blackish or grey spots : 

 lower-jaw of the male ending in an incurved elonga- 

 tion : tail forked. 



Salmon. Br. Zool. t. 58. Shaw Zool. t. 102. 



Body 2-4 feet long, blackish in front and on the cheeks: ^vwfmal!,, 

 iris silvery : jaws of the male more or lefs incurved : tongue with 

 6 or 8 recurved teeth : Jleshy-fin and lateral-line black j, ventral-fins 

 with an appendage at the bafe : dorfal-fin 14-rayed; pectoral 14; 

 ventral 10 ; anal 13 ; caudal 21-rayed. 



92. S. Eriox. Deep silvery- grey, with purplish-grey 

 spots : lower-jaw a little longer : tail nearly even. 



Shewen. Br. Zool. x'n.p. 225. n. 144. Donovan t.gi. 



Refembles the laft but is fmaller and the flesh is paler : jaws of 

 the male very slightly incurved ; belly silvery; dorfal-fin fpotted, 

 the rays above the membrane, 12-rayed; pectoral 145 ventral 10 ; , 

 anal 12 ; tail 24-rayed. 



93. S. Trutta. Purplish-grey, with black, drop-like spots 

 on the head body and dorsal-fin. 



Salmon Trout. Block x.p. 143. tab. 21. 



Body fmaller than the Salmon, covered with fmall round dusky 

 fpots furrounded by a paler circle : jaws equal : tail slightly cloven: 

 dorfal-fin 14-rayed ; pectoral 14; ventral 9; anal 10; tail 20-. 

 rayed. 



94. S. Fario. Yellowish-grey, with purple or red spots : 

 lower-jaw a little longer than the upper. 



2. Stomach very large. Gillaroo Trout. Sow. Mifc. t. 61. 



Body about a foot long, narrow, olive above the lateral line, yel- 

 low beneath it, belly white : cheeks yellow and green : iris white, 

 with a femilunar blackish edge : fins purplish-yellow, the dorfal 

 fpotted, the fleshy-one brown tipt with red 3 the ventral with a 

 pointed appendage: dorfal-fin 13-rayed ; pectoral 13; ventral 9; 

 anal 9, edged with white : tail slightly forked, 25-rayed. 



95, . S. Phinoc. Silvery-grey, with very splendid belly: 

 dorsal-fin spotted with black : tail black, forked. 



White Salmon. Penn. Brit. Zool. in. p. 302* n. 147. 



Body about a foot long, of an elegant form, with the back straight, 

 above dusky and silvery intermixed, beneath of an exquisite silvery 



