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 Leuciscus. fishes. MALACOPTERYGIOUS. IS": 



Gen. XXXII. ABRAMIS. Bream.— Anal fin long; the. 

 dorsal fin short, and behind the ventrals. " 



6^. A. Brama. Common Bream. — Lateral line placed low, 

 and Avaved irregularly. 



Cyprinus latus (Abramus) Merr. Pin. 190. Will. Ich- 248.— Cyprinus 

 Brama, Liun. Syst. i. 531. Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. 362. Don, Brit. 

 Fishes, tab. xciii. — In lakes or deep rivers ; England and Scotland. 

 AVeight 4 or 5 pounds. Body deep, compressed ; the head small, and the 

 back elevated and sharp. Back bluish black ; the sides and belly white ; the 

 latter sometimes yellow or red. Scales large. Mouth remarkably smalL 

 D. 11, (the second ray the longest), p. 19, v. 9, a. 27. (crescent-shaped). 

 Spawn in May. Willoughby adds, " Hepar habet longum inter ventriculum 

 ► et intestinvun, in ipsa flexura eodem modo depositum quo pancreas in avibus. 

 Cystis fellea in hepatis parenchymate pene latitat. Lien ei angulosus ; ap- 

 ^ pendices nuUte ; intestina semel reflexa. Vesica pneumatica transversim in 

 duos lobos divisa." According to the Reverend llevett Sheppard, " There 

 exist in the river Trent, in the neighbourhood of Newark, two species or va- 

 rieties of bream. The common one Cyprinus Brama is known there by the 

 name of Carp Bream, from its yellow colour, and has been taken of nearly 8 

 pounds weiglit. The other species or variety, which I believe to be a non- 

 descript, never exceeds a pound in weight. It is of a silvery hue, and goes by 

 the name of White Bream." — Linn. Trans, xiv. p. 587. According to Pennant, 

 the bream occurs in Lochmaben Lightfoofs Flora Scotica, i. 63. 



' Gen. XXXIII. LEUCISCUS.— Dorsal and anal fins short. 

 * Ventral and anal fins reddish. 



63. L. vidgaris. Dace. — Body oblong ; shghtly compressed. 

 Head small. Irides pale yellow. 



Leuciscus, Merr. Pin, 189. Will. Orn. 260 — Cyprinus Leuciscus, Linn. 



Syst. i. 528. Penus Brit. Zool. iii. 36C. Don, Brit. Fishes, tab. 



Ixxvii. — JS, Dar, Dart — In rivers in England. 

 Length about 10 inches. Back dusky green ; sides and belly silvery. Dor- 

 sal fin "dusky ; the ventral, anal, and caudal fins red. D. 10, p. 15, v. 9, a. 9. 

 Tail much forked. Spawns in February. liUrks near the roots of trees ; 

 frolicksome. Flesh insipid. The Graining of Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. 367 ; 

 (the Cyprinus Lancastriensis of Shaw, Gen. Zool. v. 234), is usually consi- 

 dered as a variety of the dace. It is thus described : " The graining is found 

 in the Mei'sey, near Warrington ; has much the resemblance of a dace, but is 

 more slender^ and the back straiter. The usual length about 74 inches. The 

 depth to the length of this is as one to five ; of the dace as one to four. The 

 colour of the back is silvery, with a bluish cast. The ej'es, ventral, and anal 

 fins are red, but paler than those of the dace. The pectoral fin redder." 



64. L. cephalus. Chub. — Body and head thick ; snout round- 

 ed. Scales large, angular. 



Capito sive cephalus, a Chub or Chevin, Will. Ich. 255 — Giyprinus ob- 

 longus macrolepidotus : pinna ani ossiculorum undecim. Art. Ich. 



fen. V. syn. 7 Cyprinus Cephalus, Linn. Syst. i. 527. Penn. Brit. 

 Jool. iii. 368 Cyprinus Jeses, Don. Brit. Fishes, t. cxv. — In rivers 



in England and Scotland. 



