300 CVl'KIMDJi. 



Stilbe, Dckmj, New York Faun. Fish. p. 204. 



Alburnellus, Luxilus, sp., Eicbardsonius, Girard. 



Abi-amis, Abramidopsis, Blicca, Bliccopsis, et Alburnus, sp., Siehold. 

 Body much compressed, elevated or oblong. Scales of moderate 

 size ; lateral line present, running in the lower half of the tail. 

 Dorsal fin short, without spine, opposite to the space between ventrals 

 and anuls ; anal fin long, many-rayed. Lower jaw generally shorter, 

 and rarely longer, than the upper; both jaws with simple lips, the 

 lower labial fold being interrupted at the symphysis of the man- 

 dible. Upper jaw protractile. Gill-rakers rather short ; pseudo- 

 branchiai. The attachment of the branchial membrane to the isth- 

 mus takes place at some distance behind the vertical from the orbit. 

 Pharyngeal teeth in one or two series, with a notch near the ex- 

 tremity. Belly behind the ventrals compressed into an edge, the 

 scales not extending across it. 



Europe, north of the Alps, and adjoining parts of Asia ; North 

 America. 



a. Pharyngeal teeth o — 5 : Ahramis (Siebold), p. 300. 



/3, Pharyngeal teeth 5 . 2—2 . 5 : Blicca (Heckel), p. 306. 



a. Abramis. 



1. Abramis brama. 



The Bream. JJerBrachsen or Bley. 

 Brax. La Breme. 



Abramis fluviatilis, Bellon. Be Aqtiat. p. 317; Gesner, pp. 316 & 317. 

 Cyprinus latus, Rondel. De Pise. Lac. p. 1-54; Aldrov. De Pise. pp. 641 



'& 642 ; Schonev. p. 33 ; Gronov. Zoophyl. no. 345. 

 Bream, WiUiighby, p. 248, tab. Q. 10. fig. 4 ; Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. 



p. 317, pi. 70, and, ed. 1812, iii. p. 478, pi. 81 ; Conch, Fish. Brit, 



Isl. iv. p. 30, pi. 187. 

 Brama, 3iarsil. Danub. iv. tab. 16 & 17. 

 Cyprinus, sp., Artedi, Gen. p. 6. no. 17; Specif. 20. no. 10; St/non. 



p. 4. no. 2. 

 Cyprinus brama, L. Si/sf. Kat. i. p. 531 ; Leske, Ichth. Lips. p. 73 ; 



Bl. Fische Deiitschl. i. p. 75, taf. 13 ; Bl. Schh. p. 438 ; Laeep. v. 



p. 591; Meidinger, tab. 43; Pull. Zoogr. Boss.- As. iii. p. 325; 



Fkstrom, Fische v. Morko, p. 30 ; Donovati, Brit. Fish. iv. pi. 93 ; 



Turton. Brit. Faun. p. 108 ; Jenyns, Manualy p. 406; Fries och Ekstr. 



Skand. Jtsk. p. 175, pi. 42; Gronov. Sgst. ed. Gray, p. 180, 

 Brama, IClein, Miss. v. pi. 61. no. 1. 



U. S. # Pac. R. li. Exped. Fish. p. 282, pi. 60. figs. 9-12.— Canadian 

 River, South Fork.— A. 13. 



G. Lcuciscus compressus, {Bafincsqite) Kirtland, Best. Journ. Kaf. Hist. iv. 

 1843, p. 306, pi. 15. fig. 2 ; Storcr. Mem. Amer. Acad. ii. p. 409.— 

 Ohio. — This species is described as having the abdomen compressed at 

 the anal fiu, wliich, however, is said to be nine-rayed. If this be so, it 

 cannot be 'referred to the same genus as the other American species 

 \\\\\\ a long anal fin. Is it, perhaps, a liybrid ? 



7. obesus, Storcr, Proc. Lost. Sac. Nat. Hist. i. 1845, p. 48 ', and Me7)i. 



Amer, Acad. ii. p. 418 ; Stilbe obesus, Agass. SiUim. Journ. 1854, xix. 

 p. 359 (name only) ; Luxilus obesus, Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phi/ad. 

 18.56, p. 203 (synon. only), from Florence, Alabama, is very imperfectly 

 known ; not even the numbers of fui-niys are give.' 



