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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 



in their spawning o|)crati()ns. The l,-iit<(i (tig. 204), a 

 fish trap set at tiie spawning-p]a<'e (}r in tiie eliannels 

 which the lireani must ])ass on its way tiiither, is a 



often cauglit, as we have mentioned, in ice-seines, when 

 tlie winter-quarters of the fish have been discovered. 

 In August and September tiie IJreani is taken by ang- 



Fig. 204. Kntm, i\ tish Imp in general uso in Central Sweden, ami chielly employed in the taking of Cypriiioids. Seen oldiqiiely from 

 the side with llie shore-arm to the right, and in the plan with the shore-arm tnrned downwards. 



better kind of tackle, tlie tish being tlius afforded an ' ling in C — I'i fathoms of water, the bait used being 



o])portiniitv of de]iositing their roc on the shore-arm I the common earthworm. 



of the trap. In winter great numbers of Bream are I (Eiv.strom, Smitt.) 



A form which has long been known, but was first 

 recognised in scientific nomenclature h\ IjLoch, the 

 German Leifer and Yakkell's Pomeranian Bream, has 

 been explained by SiEiiOLn and other later writers as 

 a hvln-id between tlie Ibetuii and the Roach. For the 

 sake . of uniformity and on the analogy of Bliccopsis, 

 however, Siebold gave this form the generic name of 



Ahrainid(q)sis. The most striking character — a com- 

 paratively short anal fin in conjunction with a Bream- 

 like bod-\- — is common to Ahraiiiidopsis and Bliccopsis, 

 and we therefore consider it most appropriate to com- 

 pare this form in our diagnosis thereof with the stiid 

 hybrids of the White Bream. 



