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five ; of the Dace as one to four : the colour of the 

 back is silvery with a blueish cast : the eyes, ventral 

 and anal fins red, but paler than in the Dace, and 

 the pectoral fins are redder : in the dorsal fin are 

 eight rays, in the pectoral fifteen, in the ventral 

 nine, in the anal ten, and in the tail thirty-two. 



CASPIAN CARP. 



Cjrprinus Mursa. C. pinna ani radiis septem, primo longissimOf 

 dorsalis tertio longissimOy crassissimo, retrorsum ultra medium 

 serrato, cirris qvatuor. Lin. Gmel. p, 1415. Guldenst. Nov, 

 Comm. Fetrop, 17 . P- ''513. 



Carp with four beards, seven rays in the anal fin, the first very 

 long, and the third ray of the dorsal fin very long and thick, 

 and serrated beyond the middle. 



Length about twelve inches : habit resembling 

 that of a Pike, being of a squarish oblong shape : 

 scales small, and obtusely square : colour gilded 

 olive, shaded with dusky on the upper parts: abdo- 

 men white : skin mucous : anal and ventral fins 

 white, spotted on the upper part with brown : the 

 rest of the fins brown : the dorsal placed in the 

 middle of the back, the tail forked. Native of the 

 Caspian sea, ascending rivers in the spring season 

 in order to deposit its ova in proper situations. 



