68 MALACOP. ABDOM. CARP FAMILY. 



folk. This species is not esteemed for food, and is 

 much prized only by other fish. 



(Sp. 104.) A. Buggenhagii. The Pomeranian 

 Bream derived its specific name from the individual 

 who first sent it to Bloch, its original describer; 

 and Mr. Yarrell has called it Pomeranian Bream, 

 very properly deeming it no objection to attach to 

 this fish the name of the country in which it was 

 discovered, though afterwards found elsewhere. Its 

 introduction into the British Fauna we owe to Mr. 

 Yarrell, who obtained from Mr. Brandon a fine spe- 

 cimen, captured in a net at Dagenham Breach, 

 Essex, in 1836. Mr. Thompson of Belfast had also 

 obtained a specimen from the river Logan, near 

 Belfast ; and Mr. Jenyns has since ascertained that 

 it exists in Cambridgeshire. It is at once, says 

 Mr. Yarrell, distinguished from either of the other 

 species by the great thickness of the body, which is 

 equal to half its depth ; while in either of our other 

 Bream, the thickness of the body is equal to only 

 one-third of its depth ; the scales are also larger in 

 proportion, and difi'erent in shape. The anal fin is 

 shorter than that of the White Bream, which, in 

 its turn, is shorter, and has fewer rays than the 

 Common Bream. The up^.er parts of the body are 

 of a dark blackish blue, becoming lighter on the 

 sides, and passing into silvery white on the belly ; 

 the pectoral, dorsal, and caudal fins are bluish 

 brown, tinged with pale red ; the ventral and anal, 

 with less brown and more red. 



Gen. LVI. Leiciscus. — In this genus the dorsal 



