390 



CYPRINID.E. 



and herbage, like the other species of the genus, but grows 

 slowly. The flesh is said to be white, tender, and of good 

 flavour. 



The head is large, and appears somewhat truncated ; the 

 muzzle blunt ; the mouth small, without teeth, as is the case 

 also with the other species of this extensive family ; the upper 

 jaw rather the longest ; the eye of moderate size ; the dorsal 

 line convex ; abdominal line almost straight ; the scales of the 

 body large ; the lateral line curved in its descent from the 

 upper edge of the operculum to the centre of the body : the 

 fin-rays in number are 



D. 10 : P. 17 : V. 11 : A. 13 : C. 19. Vertebra 41. 



In colour the irides are straw yellow, the pupils black ; 

 forehead, nape, and back, very dark bluish black ; the sides 

 bluish grey ; the belly white : pectoral fin orange ; ventrals 

 immediately under the dorsal fin, red in the middle, the 

 first and last rays white ; base of the anal fin white, the other 

 part red ; dorsal fin and tail grey, all the rays branched. 



Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, Bart, of Charlton, who 

 visited Sweden in the Summer of 1838, ascending the Gota 

 river in his yacht, the Syren, caught a fine large specimen of 

 the Ide whilst trolling for Pike on a windy day in the Gota 

 Elf, a short distance above the falls of Trollhattan. The 

 fish weighed between four and five pounds. The skin was 

 effectually preserved and mounted after it was brought to 

 England. 



