388 t'YPRINID.E. 



While investigating the natural history of the county 

 of Cambridge, the Rev. L. Jenyns lias discovered that this 

 second species of Bream inhabits the Cam ; and I am in- 

 debted to that gentleman for a specimen of the fish, with 

 some further remarks. Referring to the communication 

 of the Rev. Mr. Sheppard, Mr. Jenyns says : " This second 

 species of Bream is very abundant in some parts of the 

 river Cam, where it is called by the fishermen the Breamflat : 

 it does not attain the size of the Carp-Bream, rarely exceed- 

 ing ten or twelve inches. It is probably the Cyprinus blicca 

 of Bloch ; though I have never seen the fins so red as they 

 are represented in his figure." 



I have been very recently favoured by the Rev. Richard 

 Lubbock, of Tombland, near Norwich, with a communication 

 that this fish is also occasionally met with in some of the 

 broads and rivers in that part of the county of Norfolk ; but 

 that it is limited both as to its location and numbers. Its 

 mode of biting, when angled for, is singular : it appears more 

 prone to rise than to descend ; and the float, consequently, 

 instead of being drawn under water, is laid horizontally on 

 the surface, by the attack of the fish on the bait. A speci- 

 men of each of the two Bream described in this work, 

 obligingly sent me by Mr. Lubbock from the same locality, 

 differed much less in colour than those previously received 

 from Cambridgeshire. The example of A. blicca had two 

 rays less in the anal fin than the fish from the Cam. 



That this fish is distinct from the well-known Carp- 

 Bream, the description will evince. Bloch says of this spe- 

 cies, that it is very common on the Continent, being found 

 generally in lakes and slow rivers ; that it is tenacious of 

 life and breeds fast, but is not in any esteem for table, 

 though encouraged as supplying food for Pike and other 

 voracious fishes. 



