foNT /tBERGLASLYN, f>IoRTH WalES. 



Order IV. 

 PHVSOSTOMI. 



Family 

 CrPRL\lD/E. 



»ACE. 



fLeuciscus viilgai-is.J 



Ltucisci sccunda specks, 

 Dace, or Dan, 



Cyprinus novcm digitorum, &r., 

 Cyprinus kuciscus, 

 Vandoise, 

 Lcuciscus vulgaris, 



Leuciscus laiicas/i kns/'s ( Grainuigj, 



Dohiik Roach, 



Sqtiallus kuciscus {Hascl, Heisliiig), 



Gesner, De Aquatil. p. 26. 



WiLLUGHBY, Hist. Pise. p. 260; Pen.mami, Brit. Zool. iii. p. 320; 



Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. p. 54, pi. 194. 

 Artedi, Spec. Pise. p. 9 No. 16. 

 LACfip., V. p. 572; Donovan, Brit. Fish. iv. p^ 77. 

 Bellon, p. 314; Bloch. 

 Fleming, Brit. An. p. 1.S7; Yarrell, i. p. 404; Gl'.vther's Cat. 



vii. p. 226. 

 Yarrell, i. p. 40C. 

 Y'arrell, i. p. 397. 

 Siebold, Siisserwasserfische p. 203. 



THE Dace is one of the most elegant-shaped fish which we have; it is of a beautiful 

 silvery whiteness, and exceedingly quick in its movements, darting like an arrow away 

 from any person or object that may alarm it. It is common in most of the rivers and 

 streams of Central Europe. In England the Dace is found in many of our clear waters, 

 but it is said not to occur in Ireland or Scotland. The Dace is gregarious, like the Roach, 



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