FISHES. ABDOMINAL. 45 - 84^ 
Inhabits European fc-as, and like the Talraon afcends rivers 
riodically v icldom exceeds 2 feet long •, above dulky, with a 
elols of blue and green, the fides violet, beneath white ; 
feeds on fmall filb, inl'efls and worms •, flelh pale red and 
Head fmall, wedged; nofe and /rant black ; cteftr Violet-yel- 
low ; eyes fmall, iris ycllowilb-filvery ; jaws equal ; teeth 
Ibarp, a little curved ; palate with 3 rows of teeth; tongue 
JO 12 teeth, in 2 rows; fins with branched rays, ci- 
nereous, the caudal and flefliy dorfial ones black ; the latter 
and the firft dorfial fpotted ; tail broad, flightly bifid. 
'2. Firft dorfal fin fpotted ; tail black, much forked. 
fHhite Trout. 
Mierates out of the Sea into the Efik in Curnberland s iAdom 
exceeds a foot long; body above mixed black, dufley and 
filverv' beneath the lateral line of an exquifite filvery white- 
nefst'firfi dorfal fin fpotted with black. 
Upper fare a Uttk longer, with 2 rows of teeth, lotser with 
one •: tongue with 6 teeth ; lateral /i«e ftraight. 
Dorfi 14, pect. 14, 9 i 
2) Lrfi J 1 : pea. 13 : vent. 9 : an. 9 : caud. — rays. 
Body with purple-red fpots ; lower jaw a little 
2 . Above brown with violet fpots ; the fides whit ilh-yellow. 
with red fpots, furrounded with white and a brown 
area, beneath white. . .1 r u . 
Inhabits rivers of Europe and Siberia leading into the fea, but 
chiefly mountainous and rocky torrents; about a f^t long ; 
Lims^vith great velocity, and leaps high out of the water ; 
is very fertile and voracious ; feeds on leffer fifli, even of tts 
ocvn tribe, worms, teftaceous animals and marine infec-ls ; 
body narrow, with blackilh fpots above, above the laterai 
line^greenilh-black, beneath it golden, with red fpots fur- 
rounded with blueilh, belly white. 
Head large ; nofie and front blackilh-green ; cheeks Vaned with 
vellow\nd green ; teeth curved inwards ; palate with 3 rows 
of teeth each fide, the middle largeft ; tongue with 6—8 
teeth • iris white, with a femilunar blackifli edge ; peBoral 
finsbrowiiilh; ventral yellowy with a 
firft rays of the anal puimle, the others varied with cine 
reou' Ind yellow ; doifiat cinereous, with numerous Ima I 
fliS^tly bifid, ftreaked with yel- 
lowilh-black. , „ 
Dorfi, 14, pect, 10, vent, 10, a 7 i, 10, caud, 18 r y . 
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