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The Hiftory of ANIMALS* 
Coregonus tnaxilla fuperiore longiore , pinna dorji ojfcu - 
lorum viginti trium. 
The Coregonus, with the upper jaw the longeft , and 
twenty-three rays in the hack fin . 
SOSje dStapU'ttfl, 
o? timber. 
This is a large and handfome fifih; it’s general length, when moderately grown, is 
fomewhat more than a foot: it’s body is but narrow, in proportion to this length, 
but it is moderately thick: the head is deprefied,, and is plane at the top, and acute at 
the end: the back is convex, and in the anterior part is fomewhat acute j and the 
belly, from the gills to the pe&oral fins, is plane; the teeth are fhort, but they are 
fharp j thofe in the upper jaw are longer than any of the other j they are of a fome¬ 
what conic figure, and there is only one feries of them • in the lower jaw alfo there are 
only one feries, and thefe very fmall; in the anterior part of the palate, at the fides, 
there are a number of very minute teeth placed in a right line: in the very apex of the 
palate there is a little area, of a roundifh figure, which is covered with minute teeth j 
and, finally, there are two other fmall areolae in the fauces, covered in the fame man¬ 
ner with teeth: the tongue is fmooth ; the upper jaw is fomewhat longer than the 
under, and the opening of the mouth is large: the noflrils have each two foramina, 
and there are fome dudts vifible on the head above the eyes: the iris of the eye is of 
various colours, a filvery white, a blackifh and greenifh : the pupil is of a bluifh- 
black, and of an oval figure, but pointed on the anterior part: the branchiofiege mem¬ 
brane on each fide has ten flat and fomewhat broad officles: the lateral line is ftraight, 
and is fituated fomewhat nearer to the belly than to the back: the fcales are large and 
beautiful j they are of a femicircular figure, and adhere very firmly; they are hard 
and flrong : on the belly they are of a whitifh colour on the fides; they are of a fil¬ 
very white, with a tinge of green, and on the back they are of a dufky grey; they 
are not placed in the ulual, fimple, imbricated manner, but they run in flraight lines, 
and form about twenty fuch; the very tail has fmall fcales on it, of the fame figure 
with the others, but fofter and not adhering fo firmly : the back fin is large - } it Hands 
nearer to the head than to the tail, and has twenty-three rays: the membrane which 
connects thefe is blackifh, but it is fpotted and (freaked with red, and toward the 
hinder part is variegated often with greenifh there is, befide this, on the extremity of 
the back, a kind of pinniform, membranaceous appendage, but without rays: the 
pedoral fins are brown, and have each fixteen rays; the belly fins are reddifh, and have 
each twelve rays; the pinna ani is alfo reddifh, and has fourteen rays; the tail is fork¬ 
ed, and fomewhat reddifh, and has nineteen long rays: the vertebra in this fifh are 
forty-nine, and the ribs on each fide thirty-four. 
We have it in our large rivers, particularly in the North of England, in great abun¬ 
dance ; and it is frequent alfo in the rivers and lakes of mod other parts of Europe. 
The Greeks call it and ©u//,«aa©^ and from them the Latins, Thymus and 
Thymallus- fome Tithymallus, and fome Tunallus j others call it alfo Umbra and 
Umbra fluviatilis, and often defcribe it as another fpecies under this name ; the Italians 
call it Temelo, and the Germans Afch ; the Swedes call it Harr. 
Coregonus maxilla fuperiore longiore miica. 3Cf jt 
The Coregonus y with the upper jaw longeft and conic . ^DUttfL 
This is a fmall fpecies • it rarely exceeds eight or nine inches in length, and is but 
narrow, in proportion to that length : the head is oblong, and the roftrum of a conic 
figure : the eyes are large, and the noftriis have each two foramina, the anterior the 
fmaller: the fcales are moderately large, and of a figure approaching to round y they 
Rand in an imbricated manner : the back fin is of a dufky colour, and has thir¬ 
teen rays $ the pedtoral fins are of a greyifh colour, and have each feventeen rays j 
the ventral fins are alfo greyifh, with a tinge of black, and have twelve rays % the 
pinna ani has fourteen rays ; the tail is forked, and has nineteen : there are no teeth 
either in the jaws or fauces, but the tongue is rough. 
This fpecies is frequent in the rivers and lakes in Germany, and moft other parts 
of Europe 5 the rivers in Flanders produce it in great abundance. Ray, Willughby, 
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