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  Class 
  IV. 
  — 
  FISHES. 
  

  

  Sub-Class 
  TELEOSTEI. 
  

   Order 
  ACANTHOPTERYGII. 
  

  

  Family 
  PERCID.E. 
  

   Genus 
  PERCA, 
  Artedi. 
  

   Perca 
  fluviatilis, 
  Rondeletius. 
  Perch. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  0. 
  S. 
  A. 
  for 
  the 
  parish 
  of 
  Spynie 
  (1794), 
  we 
  find 
  

   that 
  in 
  the 
  Loch 
  of 
  Spynie 
  " 
  there 
  are 
  also 
  Perch 
  and 
  Trout." 
  

   Skene 
  Keith, 
  in 
  his 
  Agriculture 
  of 
  Aberdeenshire, 
  p. 
  73, 
  says 
  : 
  

   " 
  Perch 
  were 
  in 
  the 
  ponds 
  at 
  Pitfour 
  prior 
  to 
  1811." 
  

  

  According 
  to 
  the 
  N. 
  S. 
  A., 
  Aberdeenshire, 
  " 
  Perch 
  were 
  

   first 
  introduced 
  to 
  the 
  Loch 
  of 
  Strathbeg 
  by 
  the 
  present 
  

   proprietor, 
  from 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  Ferguson 
  of 
  Pitfour's 
  pond." 
  

   "A 
  few 
  have 
  been 
  caught 
  in 
  the 
  River 
  Ugie, 
  which 
  have 
  

   escaped 
  from 
  the 
  ponds 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Ferguson 
  of 
  Pitfour." 
  

   (Arbuthnot's 
  Account 
  of 
  Peterhead, 
  p. 
  19, 
  1815.) 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Glasgoiv 
  Geography, 
  vol. 
  i., 
  p. 
  324 
  (1819), 
  it 
  is 
  said 
  

   that 
  along 
  the 
  east 
  of 
  Scotland 
  " 
  every 
  lake 
  affords 
  Pike 
  and 
  

   Perch." 
  

  

  Notwithstanding 
  the 
  above, 
  a 
  writer 
  in 
  Charksworth's 
  

   Magazine, 
  vol. 
  i., 
  new 
  series, 
  p. 
  118 
  (1837), 
  signed 
  "W. 
  L.," 
  

   says 
  : 
  " 
  There 
  are 
  no 
  Perch 
  north 
  of 
  Perth." 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  now 
  widely 
  distributed 
  — 
  in 
  lochs, 
  rivers, 
  

   and 
  small 
  streams 
  — 
  throughout 
  the 
  north-east 
  of 
  Scotland. 
  

  

  Genus 
  LABRAX, 
  Cuv. 
  

  

  Labrax 
  lupus, 
  Cuv. 
  Bass. 
  

  

  Edward, 
  in 
  his 
  " 
  Banffshire 
  Fauna," 
  p. 
  417, 
  in 
  Smiles's 
  Life 
  

   of 
  a 
  Scottish 
  Naturalist, 
  says 
  : 
  " 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  rare 
  species 
  with 
  us, 
  

   only 
  three 
  having 
  come 
  under 
  my 
  notice." 
  " 
  Now 
  and 
  then 
  

   makes 
  its 
  appearance 
  in 
  the 
  Firth 
  of 
  Forth." 
  (Parnell.) 
  

  

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