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POMERANIAN BREAM. 



Cyprinus Buggenhagii, Bloch; PL 96. 



Ahramis Buggenhagii, Cuvier. Thompson. 



" " Yakeell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 391. 



A THIRD species of British Bream was first announced by 

 Mr. William Thompson as obtained by him in Ireland, and we 

 shall borrow his account of this fish, as it is contained in his 

 Natural History of that portion of the United Kingdom; but 

 it has also been found in England by Mr. Yarrell, to whom it 

 was presented from the Dagenham Breach, and afterwards from 

 another portion of the Thames; and it has likewise been obtained 

 by Mr. Jenyns in Cambridgeshire. But previous to this it had 

 been described by the Prussian naturalist Bloch, who obtained 

 examples from Pomerania; from which country they had been 

 sent to him by a gentleman whose name he affixed to the 

 species, and who therefore must be pronounced its first 

 discoverer. 



It has not been recognised in any other country besides 

 those we have here specified; and everywhere it appears to be 

 a scarce species. We may suppose therefore that it is less 

 prolific than the others of this genus, or that it is beset with 

 much more formidable enemies. 



Mr. Thompson's notice of it is, that it has been taken in the 

 sluggish River Lagan, in which the (Lake) Bream is abundant. 

 On inspecting the produce of a fishing-rod at the River Lagan, 

 near Belfast, I detected a Bream differing from the common 

 species. It agreed so fully with Bloch's description of the 

 Cyprinus Buggenhagii as to satisfy me of its identity, the only 

 difference consisting in the number of rays in the pectoral fin, 

 twelve being enumerated by him, and eighteen appearing in the 

 specimen; "several of them, however, being very short may have 



