Dn the JhAMES, NEAI^pTON. 



Order IV. 

 PHYSOSTOMI. 



Family 

 CYPRINIDJE. 



WHITE Bream, or ^reamflat. 



V<D 



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fAbraiiiis blicca.) 



Blicca, Ballmi^, Pkdya, 



Cyprinus admodum I at us d tenuis, 



Cyprinus bjHrka, 



Cyprinus blicca, 



Abramis blicca. 



White Bream, 



Blicca bjbrkna, 



Gesnek, De Aquatil. i). 2+. 



Artedi, Spec. Pise. p. 1 2 Xo. 2+. 



Lin., Sys. Nat. p. 532. 



Block, i. p. 65 pi. 10. 



Cuv., R. A. ii. p. 274; Gi;NTHER, Cat. vii. p. 306. 



Yarkell, i. p. 387; Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. pi. iSS. 



Siebold's Siisserwasserf. p. 138. 



npHE White Bream Is a much smaller species than the Common Bream, and is far less 

 -1- widely distributed over the countr)- it seldom exceeds one pound in weight, and is 

 worthless as an article of diet ; it is of bright silvery hue, and quite destitute of the yellow 

 or colden lustre of its near relation. It is hardly possible to distinguish this species from 

 the'youn.. individual of the Common Bream, because though the White Bream has never 

 any yellowish tint, generally observable in large or middle-sized specimens of the other 

 species, yet young Common Bream are very frequently white, and so similar m appearance 



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