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LEUCISCUS. 



With the usual characters of the family of Carps, the dorsal and 

 qnal fins am short; and they have not any barbs, or spines to the fins. 



CHUB. 



CHEVIN. 



Coinlo, 



Cyprinus ceplialus, 



" Jeses, 



Leuciscus ceplialus, 

 Cyprinus ceplialus, 



Jonston; Table 26, f. 7. 

 WiLLOUGHBY; p. 255, plate Q. 10. 



LlNN^US. 



Bloch; pi. 6. Donovan; pi. 115. 

 Fleming; British Animals, p. 187. 

 Jenyns; Manual, p. 411. 

 Yabrell; British Fishes, vol. i, p 



i09. 



In its habits the Chub so far agrees with several others of 

 this family, that it is found only in rivers which possess a 

 good depth and supply of water; and also that it manifests 

 much sensibility to changes of temperature in the different 

 seasons. But, on the other hand, it prefers those streams in 

 which the water flows with some considerable rapidity along 

 a clean bottom of sand or gravel; and so needful to its 

 well-being is a supply of what is afforded by a current, that 

 it is not easy to keep it alive in a tank, or within the narrow 

 limits of a pond. It is necessary, however, that its native stream 

 should possess some safe and shaded pits or deeper recesses, 

 to which it may retreat from danger, of the slightest appearance 

 of which it is timidly sensible; and also where it may liide 

 when the sun shines hot, and during the colder season of the 

 year. From some causes connected with this repugnancy to still 

 or stagnant water, or to the want of congenial retreat, this 

 fish does not exist in the rivers of the north of Scotland, or in 



