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alarm, even at the passing of a shadow, but it will 

 soon resume its former position; it feeds upon 

 worms and insects, and will rise at a fly. Mr. Jesse 

 mentions that, of the fresh- water fish confined in 

 his Piscatorium in Bushy Park, the Chub, after the 

 Trout, was the most restless, being continually on 

 the move : at the same time, they could never resist 

 a cockchaffer when thrown in their way. Dr. 

 Heysham, in the catalogue of Cumberland animals 

 affixed to Hutchison's History, states that it is 

 very plentiful in that county; and that the boys 

 make a paste of bread and some narcotic, which 

 they throw into the holes of the rivers they fre- 

 quent ; this the Skelly greedily devours, becomes 

 intoxicated, and is thus captured in great numbers. 

 Broiling it with the scales still on, is one of the best 

 methods of preparing it for the table. 



(Sp. 111.) L. erythrophthahnus. The Red-Eye, 

 or Rudd. The second sub-genus of Leuciscus, ac- 

 cording to the Regne Animal, has the dorsal fin 

 placed in the interval between the ventral and anal 

 fins. Four British species belong to the category, 

 and the first is the one just named. Tlie name 

 Red-Eye has been assigned to it from the colour of 

 the iris ; that of Rudd is stated to be derived from 

 the golden coppery tint which ornaments the whole 

 surface. Roud is its name in Norfolk ; Shallow in 

 Cambridgeshire; and it is the Finscale of Wil- 

 lughby. It is a common fish on the Continent of 

 Europe, and also in England ; Willughby recorded 



