37° 



BLEAK. 



Class IV. 



fides filvery, but in the fummer yellow : the belly 

 white : the pectoral fins of a pale yellow : the 

 ventral and anal fins red : the tail a little forked, 

 of a brownilh hue, but tinged with blue at the end. 



176. Bleak. Alburnus. Aufon. Mofeila, 



126. 

 Able ou Ablette. Be/on, 319. 

 Alburnus. Rondel, jluviat. 



208. Ge/ner pifc. 23. 

 Albula minor. Witinck, 



Witek and Blike. Scbone- 



velde, II. Tab. I. 

 Bleak. Wil. Icth. 263. Rati 



fyn. pifc. 123. 

 Cyprinus quincuncialis, pinna 



aniofficulorum viginti. Ar- 

 te d.fynon. 10. 

 Cyprinus alburnus. Lin.fyji. 

 531. Grotiov, Zooph. No* 



33 6 - 

 Loja. Faun. Suec. No. 373. 

 Spitflauben, fchneiderfifchl. 



Kram. 395. 

 Ukeleyen. WulJBorufs. No, 



64. 



THE taking of thefe, Aujonius lets us know, 

 was the fport of children, 



Alburn os pr<edam puerilibus hamis. 



They are very common in many of our rivers, 

 and keep together in large fhoals. Thefe fifh feem 

 at certain feafons to be in great agonies •, they 

 tumble about near the furface of the water, and 

 are incapable of fwimming far from the place, 

 but in about two hours recover, and difappear. 

 Fifh thus affected the Thames fifhermen call mad 

 bleaks, They feem to be troubled with a fpecies 

 of Qordius or hair-worm, of the fame kind with 



thofe 



