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.ABRAMIS. 



The character is, that the body is deep, belly not armed with rough 

 points, dorsal fin short and placed behind the ventrals, anal fin long, 

 and both without a spinous ray; no barbs at the mouth. 



LAKE BREAM. 



CARP BREAM. YELLOW BREAM. COMMON BREAM. 



Cyprinus Lotus, Jonston; Table 29, f. 5. 



" " WiLLOUGHBY; p. 248, plate Q 10. 



" Brama, Linn.eus. 



« " Bloch; pi. 13. Donovan ; pi. 93. 



" " Jenyns; Manual, p. 406. 



Abramis vulgaris, Cuviek. 



" Brama, Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 187. 



Yakrell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 382. 



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There are only some particular situations where the Lake 

 or Carp Bream is found, but where it meets with a congenial 

 soil and water, its numbers increase in a remarkable degree. 

 And although sensitive to the variation of seasons, there is 

 nothing in the climate of the United Kingdom that is hurtful 

 to it; for as regards cold they abound even at the most northern 

 parts of Norway, while with ourselves they associate in com- 

 panies, and are lively in the warmest summers. But neither a 

 swiftly-flowing stream nor pebbly bottom are suitable, and they 

 chiefly rejoice in still water with a bottom of soft soil, whether 

 in lakes and ponds or rivers. Nilsson remarks that they in 

 Sweden are. sure to be found where the pond-weed Isoetes 

 lacustris grows; but slimy food, with other digestible vegetables, 

 serves them for nourishment, and they devour with eagerness the 

 paste prepared for them by anglers, by which they are attracted 



