OF GREAT BRITAIN. 121 



gill-covers just behind the eyes golden bronze ; upper part of 

 body, general effect greenish brown, becoming yellowish or 

 bronzy green on sides ; belly and throat silver white ; scales at 

 base browny bronze, at margins silvery whitish ; barbels at 

 corners of mouth, pale fleshy pink ; margins of all the fins 

 (except the back-fin), and including tail-fin, pale fleshy pink, 

 which extends — diminishing in intensity — nearly to the bases 

 or origins of the several fins. 



