THE 
SANGUINE PERCH. 
Generic Character. 
Gill-Covers spiny. 
Scales hard and rough. 
Specific Character , &c. 
Red PERCH, with numerous deep-red spot$. 
The Hind. 
Catesl. Car. 2. p. 14. pi. 14 . 
La Sanguinolente. 
Bonaterre Encycl. Ichth. p. 130. 
The Hind, or red spotted Perch. 
The Perea guttata, a very common inhabitant of 
the West Indian seas, and, in general, much esteem¬ 
ed as an article of food, grows sometimes to near 
double the size of the common European or river 
Perch. Its general colour is a most beautiful red, 
with numerous round spots of a deeper tinge. 
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