228 iROUND-TAILED CHUB. 



throat from the grass and weeds that are usually in 

 it^ for if that be not very clean^ it will make him to 

 taste very sour : having so done, put some sweet 

 herbs into his belly, and then tye him with two or 

 three splinters to a spit, basted often with vinegar, 

 or rather verjuice and butter, with good store of 

 salt mixed with it. 



. " Being thus drest, you will find him a better 

 dish of meat than you, or most folk, even than 

 anglers themselves, do imagine ; for this dries up 

 the fluid watrish humour with which all Chubs do 

 abound." 



It seems somewhat singular in the above receipt, 

 that Walton should first insist on the throat of the 

 fish being well cleaned, lest it should taste sour, 

 and then recommend it to be well basted with ver- 

 juice or vinegar. 



ROUND-TAILED CHUB. 



Cyprinus Cephalus. C. pinna ani radiis undecim, corpore sub* 



ci/lindrico, cauda rotundata. 

 Carp with eleven rays in the anal fin, subcylindric body, and 



rounded tail. 



Cyprinus Cephalus. C. pinna ani radiis undecim, cauda: Integra, 

 corpore subcylindrico. Lin. Syst, Nat, p. ^>TJ. 



Greatly allied to the Chub, but, according to 

 Dr. Bloch, specifically difierent • appears to have 

 been confounded by Mr. Pennant and others with 

 the Chub or Cyprinus Jeses of Linnagus, from which 

 it diifers in having the tail rounded. 



