CHUB. 



409 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGIL 



CYPR1NID/E. 



THE CHUB. 



THE SKELLY. Cumberland. 



Lewmews cephalns, Chub, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 187, sp. 64. 



Cyprinus 



Jeses, 



LINN^US. BLOCK, pt. i. pi. 6. 



Chub, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 485. 



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



,, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 115. 



THE CHUB is a well-known fish that is common in the 

 Thames, and many other rivers of England : it is said to be 

 plentiful in the Wye, and other rivers of Wales : it is the 

 Skelly of the rivers of Cumberland, so called on account of 

 the large size of its scales ; but not the Schelly of Ulswater 

 Lake.* It is also recorded as an inhabitant of the Annan, 

 and other rivers in the south of Scotland. 



* The Chub is the Skelly of the Eden, the Esk, the Caldew, the Irthing, the 

 Petterill, the Line, the Liddel, the Lowther, and the Eamont. Jamieson, in 

 his Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, has, " Skelly, a Chub." 

 The Rev. William Richardson and Dr. Heysham, in their separate accounts 

 of the Natural History of Ulswater and Cumberland, included in Hutchinson's 

 History of Cumberland, say, the " Chub is called Skelly from the large scales 

 upon them." The Chub is the Chevin of Ulswater Lake, where the Gwyniad, 

 or fresh-water Herring, is called the Schelly, pronounced Skelly ; but the term 



