The Hifiory ofi ANIMALS, 2 17 
tral fins, bat from the ventral fins it is convex ; both the jaws are wholly without 
teeth, nor are there any on the palate, but the tongue has a number of very minute 
ones on it: thefe are to be felt at all times, but they are fcarce diftinguiffiahle tp the 
fight in the recent fifh, though, when dried, they appear fufficiently plain : the lower 
jaw is fubacute, and is protended a little beyond the other; the mouth is confiderably 
large ; the top of a finger may be introduced into that of a full-grown fifh, without 
difficulty. The branchioftege membrane has feven, or fometimes only fix, bones, and 
they are of a fomewhat broad figure: the fcales are of a roundiffi figure, but 
fomewhat oblong, and are placed in an imbricated manner ; they are but loofely fixed, 
and fall off on the flighted; touch : the back of the fiffi is fomewhat bluifh ; the whole 
body befide is of a fine fiivery white: the back fin is of a greyifh colour, and has thir¬ 
teen or fourteen rays 5 the pedoral fins are whitiffi, but fomewhat black at the ex¬ 
tremities ; they have each fixteen rays; the belly fins are white, and have each twelve 
rays; the pinna ani is whitiffi, and has fifteen ; the tail is forked, and has nineteen 
long rays. 
This fpecies is frequent in the lakes and other large waters in Germany, Sweden, 
and many other parts of Europe, but we have it not in England. Ray, Willughby, 
Gefner, and the other writers on fifties call it Albula minima; the Germans call "it 
Stint; and the Swedes, Sikloja, Blicea, and Mockin. 
Coregonus maxilla fiuperiore longiore , plana , pinna dorfi ojftculorum qua -- 
tuordecim. 
The Corego?ius , with the upper jaw longeft and plane , and with fourteen 
rays in the dorfal fin . 
This is a fifh that varies very confiderably in it’s fixe, and fome other particulars, 
under the different circumftances of growth and place, and has been thence defcribed 
four or five times over, by moff of the Ichthyologiffs, under as many diftind names, 
It’s general length, when moderately grown, is about ten inches; the body is oblonp- 
and narrow, in proportion to this length; the head is fubacute and co'mpreffed, and is 
fomewhat pellucid in the upper part; the roftrum is fomewhat acute, and is a little 
prominent beyond the lower jaw : the back, from the head to the fin, is fomewhat 
plane, but from that part to the tail it is much flatter, and fomewhat broad: the belly 
is flat and broad all the way, from the gills to the tail ; the lower jaw is fmaller than 
the upper, and, when the mouth is ffiut, is covered by it: the opening of the mouth is 
finall; the rim of the lower jaw, and the whole palate, are fmooth, or without teeth 3 ! 
but there are fome teeth on the verge of the upper jaw; there is but a Angle feries 
of thefe, and they are all flender and but foft: the tongue alfo is furniflhed with a vaft 
number of very minute teeth, and the fauces are alfo armed with fmall ones, both 
above and below, to the extremity of the fmaller gill: the noftrils ffand in the mid 
way between the eyes and the extremity of the roftrum ; they have each two aper¬ 
tures, the anterior fmaller and round, the pofterior larger and oblong : the eyes" are 
large; the pupil is bluiffi, and of an ovato-acute figure ; the iris is fiivery : the cover¬ 
ings of the gills are of a fiivery colour, with an admixture of yellow ; they yonfift of 
four lamina, and of eight or nine broad officles, conneded by a membrane; the late¬ 
ral line is ftraight, and runs nearer the back than the belly of the fiffi : the fcales are 
moderately large ; they have fomewhat of a bluifh-grey tinge on the back ; in all the 
reft of the body they are of a fiivery white ; there are none on the head or coverings 
of the gills: there are two fins on the back ; the firft is of a greyiffi-black, and has 
fourteen rays; the hinder one is only a membrane, and has no rays to fupport it: the 
pedoral fins are of a greyiffi-white, but black at the tips; they have each fixteen rays: 
the belly fins aie of a whitiffi colour, but bluifh at the extremities, and have each, 
twelve rays : the pinna ani is whitiffi at the bafe, and black in the other part, and has 
feventeen rays: the tail is forked, and has twenty long rays. 
This fpecies is frequent in the Baltic, and other of the Northern Seas, and about 
the mouth of large rivers; it’s fleffi is very white and well-tafted. Authors have 
called it by the feveral names of Lavaretus, Albula nobilis, Bezola, and Albula cterulea, 
Albula parva, and Albula lacuftris and farra ; under thefe names they have, in general, 
defcribed it five times over, as of fo many diftind fpecies, 
K- k k Corefonus 
