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eyes are red : the upper jaw rather longer than the 

 lower^ and furnished on each side with a shortish 

 beard or cirrus. The Gudgeon is observed to reside 

 principally at the bottom of the streams which it 

 frequents, and it is usual with anglers to rake the 

 bottom at intervals, by which means these fish are 

 assembled in small shoals, expecting, on the raising 

 of the mud, a supply of their favourite food, viz. 

 small worms and water-insects. The Gudgeon 

 generally spawns in the spring, and is observed not 

 to deposit all its ova at once, but at distant periods, 

 so that the spawning-time lasts near a month. It 

 is a very prolific species, and is to the last degree 

 plentiful in the lakes of some parts of Germany, 

 Where it chiefly abounds in the autumnal season. 

 As a table-fish it is in high estimation, being of a 

 delicate flavour, and considered as not greatly in- 

 ferior to the Smelt. 



GRONOVIAN CARP. 



Cyprinus Gonorhynchus, C. rostro prominente angulato-rotun-' 



dato, corpore cylindrico. 

 Carp with prominent obtusely- cornered snout, and cylindric 



body. 



Cyprinus Gonorhynchus. C. pinna ani radiis acta, corpore 



cylindrico, Lin. Gmel. p. 1422. 

 Gonorhynchus. Gronov. zooph. p. 55. t. 10. f. 2. 



Length about nine inches : scales small : lateral 

 line strait : dorsal fin situated towards the hind 

 part of the body as in a Pike : ventral fins opposite 



