POMERANIAN BREAM. 



3.91 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



CYPR1N1D&. 



THE POMERANIAN BREAM. 



Cifprinus Buggenhagii, Carpe de Buggenhagen, BLOCK, vol. iii. pi. 95. 

 Abramis ,, Large-scaled Bream, THOMPSON, Zool. Proc. 1837' 



p. 56. 



I AM indebted to Mr. Daniel Brandon of Chancery 

 Lane for a fine specimen of this fish which was sent me in 

 the year 1836 from Dagenham in Essex. Mr. Brandon, who 

 is the renter of the waters at Dagenham Breach, so well 

 known to the London anglers, and who has frequently 

 favoured me with examples of other species from this loca- 

 lity, having taken this Bream in his net with other fish, very 

 kindly sent it to me with a note stating that it differed from 

 the Bream he had usually caught in that water ; and finding 

 when he reached home and made closer examination, that it 

 did not accord with the characters of either of the Bream 

 figured and described in the British Fishes, he begged my 

 acceptance of it, hoped it might prove of some interest, and 

 requested to know what it was. I understand from Mr. 

 Brandon that he has since at different times taken from twenty 

 to thirty of the same sort. 



The characters of this species are so decided, that I had 



