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FOUR-LOBED CARP. 



ful vivid sanguine red : head short : eyes extremely 

 protuberant, and appearing in some degree exten- 

 sile : fins shaped as in the Gold-Fish, and of similar 

 colour with the body for about half their length, 

 the remainder being of a beautiful white, with rose- 

 coloured rays or fibres : tail very broad, transverse, 

 and deeply trifid,the points extending to a consider- 

 able distance : scales very large. Native of Ciiina, 

 where it is kept in a similar manner with the Gold- 

 Fish, of which it should, perhaps, be rather con- 

 sidered as a variety than a truly distinct species. 



FOUR-LOBEP CARP, 



Cyprinus Cluadrilobus. C. sanguineus, pinnis roseo^albentibus, 



Cauda quadriloba* 

 Sanguine^ red Carp, with whitish rose-coloured fins and four* 



lobed tail* 



This which is described and figured in the Count 

 de Cepede's History of fishes as a distinct species, 

 seems rather to be a variety of the preceding, from 

 which it chiefly differs in having the tail divided 

 into four instead of three lobes. 



