362 



Descrip. 



BREAM. 



Class IV. 



. The fhape of the body is thick and round : the 

 irides tinged with red : the gill covers with green 

 and filver : the lower jaw is fliorter than the up- 

 per : at each corner of the mouth is a fingle beard : 

 the back olive, fpotted with black: the fide line 

 (trait ; the fides beneath that filvery : the belly 

 white. 



The tail is forked - 9 that, as well as the dorfal 

 fin, is fpotted with black. 



** Without Beards. 



169. Bream. La Bremme. Bclon, 318. 

 Cyprinus latus five Brama. 



Rondel, fiwviat. 154. Ge/ner 



pijc. 316, 317. 

 BrafTem, Brachfem. Schone- 



velde, 33. 

 Bream. Wil. Icth. 248. Rail 



fyn. fife \\6. 

 Cyprinus pinnis omnibus ni- 



grefcentibus, pinna ani 



officulorum viginti feptera. 

 Arted. fynon. 4. 

 Cyprinus Brama. Lin, fyft. 

 531. Grononj. Zoopb. No. 



345- 

 Braxen. Faun. Suec. No. 360. 



Gareikl. Kram. 391. Brek- 



meu. Wulff 

 Borufs. No. 66. 



THE bream is an inhabitant of lakes, or the 

 deep parts of (till rivers. It is a fifh that is 

 very little efteemed, being extremely infipid. 



It is extremely deep, and thin in proportion to 

 its length. The back rifes very much, and is very 

 fnarp at the top. The head and mouth are fmall: 



on 



