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CVPRINID.K. 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGIL 



CYPRIN1DA1. 



THE GRAINING. 



Lencisciis Lancastrienf.if, YARRELL, Linn. Trans, vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 5. 

 Ciiprinits ,, Graining, SHAW, Gen. Zool. vol. v. p. 234. 



,, ,, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 411. 



PENNANT, in his published account of a Tour in Scot- 

 land and Voyage to the Hebrides, pp. 11 and 12, has the 

 following observation : " In the Mersey, near Warrington, 

 and in the river Alt, which runs by Sephton, Lancashire, into 

 the Mersey near Formby, a fish called the Graining is taken, 

 which in some respects resembles the Dace, yet it is a dis- 

 tinct and perhaps new species." A short description of this 

 fish, occupying a few lines only, appears in the quarto edition, 

 as well as in two octavo editions of the British Zoology; and 

 the Graining is also shortly characterized by Shaw in his 

 General Zoology as already quoted. 



One of the streams which produce the Graining rises in 

 Knowsley Park ; and I have by the kindness of Lord Derby, 

 the President of the Zoological Society, been most liberally 

 supplied with specimens of this fish, and have thus been 

 enabled to point out its specific distinctions. 



Several streams in the township of Burton Wood and 



