754 FISH£s. 1'HORACIC. 23 . Cottos. 
and rctrafted, and with the palatt armed with teeth j ^ 
fl'.ort, thick, hard; aperttire of the ^i 7 is large, the 
2 pieces ; lateral line ftraight, nearer the back ; tient n’ A 
middle ; Jins red fpotted witli white j female white 
with black, the rays iimple ; ventral long ; tail roUP‘*'' 
the rays cleft ; firll dorjal with I’pinous rays. 
I>arf. g, i6 : peB,. i6; veni,;^: an. is; caud, i2 «>'*• 
*Gobio, Smooth ; gill-covers with a crooked fpine turning 
Miller’ s-thumb. Ri't't’l ^ 
Inhabits clear brooks of Europe and Siberia ; grow* 
inches long ; conceals itfelf either among the gravel or 
, a flone; feeds on aquatic iniefts, and the fpawn or 
of filh ; is like the others of its tribe, a very voracioo* 
body mucous, tapering, covered with fmall, round tube^ ,j,!i 
browii, Ipotted with black, (male cinereous Ipotted '' j 
brown) beneath white ; fielli good and wholefomc, 
gets red by boiling. 
Ejyes fmall, in the middle of the head, pupil black, iris 
Jazos equal; teeth liuall, bgtb in the jaws and palate; 
loole, finooth ; gill-cover of one piece, the membrane 
lateral line in the middle ; vent about the middle ; A, 
blueilli, fpotted with black, the rays fimple ; (fcmal® ,1, 
tral varied with yellow and brown) ventral long ; tail 
rounded, the rays branched. 
Dorf. >7, 18; petl. 14: vent, 4: an. 13: caud, 10 ra)'®' 
Japonieus Body o£languIar, mailed with prickly bony fcales ; ci^'c, 
Inhabits the feas round Japan and the Kurile IJlands ! 
a foot long ; .body yeUowjih-vvJiite, back brotvnifti, b^'' 
very rough. . .H 
J/ead long, deprefled behind and broad, narrowed and obtt** j|i{ 
the fore-prt, and covered with a biangular plate 
jaws, which are moveable ; ■m.outh fmall ; before the »'’/ jjr, 
a imall recurved fpine; ejyey large, pupil black, iris 
with a golden hue ; gilt-cover lunate, the membrane r^'^ii 
vait nearer the head ; f.ns with brown ferpentine 
the rays very rough and Iimple ; large pedoral 
rounded. 
Dorf. 6, 10 : peB. 12 : vent, 2 : an. 8 : caud. 12 rays« 
Infidiator. Head with fharp lines above, and 2 fpines at the fide®' $■ 
