On the pE:R^Ai■E^^T 



Onhr IV. 

 PHYSOSTOMT. 



Familv 

 CYPHIXIDjE. 



(1 



iLEAK. 



[Albicnins ii/cidiis.) 



Alhurnus, 



Alhtinius Ausonii, 



Cypruius quincuncialis, ^c, 



Cyprinus alhurnus, 



Bleak, 



Albicnius lucid us. 



Ausox., Id. X. 126. 



Gesner, De Aquatil. p. 23; Willughky, p. 263. 



Artedi, Spec. Pise. p. 10 No. 19. 



Lin., Sys. Nat. i. p. 531; Donovan, Brit. Fisli. i. [il. 18. 



Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. p. 324; Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. pi. 105. 



Yarrell, i. p. 419. 

 Gunther's Cat. vii. ]). 312; Siebold, .Siisserwasserl". p. 154. 



Characters of the Genus Alburnus. — "Body more or less elongate; scales of moderate size; lateral line runnincr 

 below the median line of the tail; dorsal fin short, without spine, opposite to the space between ventrals and anal; 

 anal fin elongate, with more than thirteen rays. Lower jaw more or less conspicuously projecting beyond the upper. 



Lips thin, simple Upper jaw protractile, (iill-rakers slender, lanceolate, closely set; pseudobranchia; Pharyngeal 



teeth in two series, hooked; belly behind the ventrals compressed into an edge Europe; Western Asia." — GiJNTHER. 



IZAAK WALTON has admirably described the little Bleak, which he aptly calls the 

 Fresh-water Sprat, as "a fish that is ever in motion;" "and therefore," he adds, "called 

 by some the river swallow; for just as you shall observe the swallow to be ever in motion, 



