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PEECA. 
The body compressed, rather deep, covered with firmly-fixed scales. 
First gill-cover with a serrated edge, on the second a spine. Jaws 
and roof of the mouth with numerous fine and slender teeth. 
Two separate dorsal fins, the first with spinous rays. These fishes, 
and several of the following genera, separated for eonvenicncy from 
the original genus Percd as constituted by Linnmus, are what that 
author named thoracic fishes, because their ventral fins are placed 
below the pectorals. 
PERCH. 
Terca major, 
Fearch, 
(( 
Perea fiuviatilis, 
ft ft 
ft ft 
ft ff 
La Perseqtie Perche, 
JONSTON; Titul, 3, C. 1. 
IzAAC Wamon’s Angler. 
Willoughby; p. 291, Tab. S. 13. 
LinnjEus and Cuviek. Bloch ; pi. 52. 
Guntheb’s Oat. of Br. Museum, vol. i, p. 58. 
Eleming; British Animals, p. 212. 
Jbnyns; Manual, p. 330. 
Yarkell; British Fishes, vol. i, p. 1. 
Lacepedb. 
The Perch is one of our best-known river fish, and is 
generally distributed over the kingdom; but it is with some 
exceptions, for it is not found in Scotland north of the 
Forth, except where it has been introduced, and it is not a 
native of Cornwall, although it has been conveyed thither 
within the present (nineteenth) century, and in the few places 
where it is known it thrives well. This fish, indeed, is capable 
of living out of water for a considerable time under favourable 
circumstances, and has been known to have been carried 
without injury a distance of forty miles, enclosed in wetted 
moss. It is said to be a custom in some parts of Germany, 
to carry this fish alive to market, and if not sold, to return 
it to its native element for another opportunity, as was 
