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the surface. The fish takes a bait readily, but 

 often spits it out again from being too indolent to 

 swallow it. The Swedish fishermen call it the 

 Aetare, or the Glutton. 



In the Bavarian dialect the term blicke is applied 

 to fishes that have a silvery glitter in the water 

 whence the specific name blicca, given to it on 

 account of the brightness of its colour as compared 

 with the Carp-Bream. 



The principal characteristics of the White Bream 



are — 



Throat-teeth hooked, in two rows as above stated. Length 

 of head compared with that of body alone as i to 3. Head 

 larger, and fleshy portion of tail comparatively deeper, than in 

 the Carp-bream. Scales larger than those of the latter. Lateral 

 line not quite so low down, and with fewer scales, numbering 

 46 or 50. Relative position of fins very similar; fin-rays dif- 

 ferent in number. Colour, generally, of the sides bluish white, 

 without any of the golden-yellow lustre observable in the Carp- 

 Bream. Ventral and pectoral fins tinged with red. 



Fin-rays : D. 10 : P. 14 : V. 9 : A. 23 : C. 19. 



The Pomeranian Bream ' is another variety — so 

 scarce as to be rarely recognized, even when acci- 

 dentally met with. It may be readily distinguished, 

 however, both from the White and Carp- Bream by 

 the number of throat-teeth on each side, which are 

 in two rows numbering five and three respectively, 

 instead of, as in the former, in two rows of five 

 and two, and, as in the latter, in a single row of 

 five. It is also distinguished by the greater thick- 



1 Ahainis Biiggcn/tagii. 



