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fishes, abdominal. SS‘ Cyprintis. 8 fg 
Head thick v fnout conic, ohtiife, a little flclhy ; mouth placed 
under the Incut, fometliing like that of the fturgeon ; eyts^ 
‘ rather large, iris filvery-ytllow; pectoral, ventral and anac 
fins red ; tail brown ; firfi ray of the dorjai ftrong, bony . 
DorJ. 8, pect. ig, vent. 9, an. 7, catid. — ■ rays. 
Anal fin Q-rayed, dorfal 8. 
Inhabits with the laft and is about the fame fize ; fcales midaie- 
fized. 
Iris yellowifii-filvery ; fnout much lengthened, deprelied, 
rounded ; lower jarD longer ; fins, except the dorfal, red. 
Dorfi-. peCl.ceo: vent. 10: an. 9 : caud. — rays. 
^^^oides. Anal fin 19-rayed, dorfal I2. . . , 
Inhabits the Cafpian lea, and in pairing time afeends rivers; 
' hardly a foot long ; body comprelfed, oblong ; fcales rounded,- 
Ilriate, above greyilh 'and greenilh-filvery, Ipottcd with 
brown, the Ildes fiiining lilvery, beneath inilk-white. 
//ead comprelfed, pointed ; and crot.<n pemih-brown ; 
eyes lateral, very moveable, iris filvery, above golden ana 
Ipotted with black, beneath with a blood-rcd mar.^, yaau 
without teeth, the lower longer ; tongue, oblong, fixed, white, 
fmooth, cartilaginous; palate linooth ; gill-covers fint. 
fmooth, fluuing lilvery ; iack a little convex ; lateral lent 
curved downwards, nearer the belly, with about 70 w'hitilh 
elevated points; dorfal fin in the middle of the back, 
brownilh, the fecond rav very long; pectoral white, oblong, 
pointed, the ftrfi ray veiy large and broum ; ventral rounded 
white, with a lanceolate appendage ; firft ray of the ana! 
very fhort, third very long ; tail perpendicular, brown. 
Dorf. *2: ped. 16 : vent, g ; an. 19: caud. 19 rays. 
Anal fin with 7, dorfal 8, peftoral 14 raysi 
Inhabits ftony rivers in Hiheria; 3 inches long; body olive 
fpotted with brown, beneath bright red ; fcales fmall, round- 
ed, adhering finnly to the ikin ; is very good when fried. _ 
Head fhort, nearly conic ; croxon black ifh ; eyes lateral, ins - 
filverv ; faios blood.red at the edge, the lower a little longer ; 
lateral line curved, nearer the belly than in others of its 
tribe; with branched rays, red at the ba,e, whitifh m the 
middle, and tipt with brown ; tail and 
fin black at the bafe, in other parts w-ntifh dotted with 
black. 
Hof. 8 : 
peel. 14 : vent. 8 : 
an. 7 t caud. 19 tays. 
Nilotictiti 
