SiLurb Catus. Cat-fi/h. Head broad and deprefied: to 
each noftril hangs a beard; one to each corner of the mouth; 
and four under the chin: body comprefied: fkin fmooth, upper 
part of the body dulky; lower pale flefli colour: fecond dorfal 
fin raylefs and flefhy: inner fide of the firft ray of the peftoral 
fins ftrongly ferrated: tail forked: length two feet. D.i. P.i. 
V. 8.. A. 11. 
This fifti inhabits the fea coaft, and alfo the frefh water rivers 
ofN. America: feeds on filh, even thofe of its own fpecies: fwims 
flowly: its tafte is like that of an eel, and much admired. 
