154 BRITISH FRESH-WATER FISHES 
of Norwich, landed one from that river weighing 6 lb. 8 oz., 
and has one in a glass case in his house which pulled the scale 
to 7 1b. 50z. Another gentleman, whose name I have mislaid, 
killed two in September, 1901, in the Wensum weighing 
6 lb. and 7 Ib. 13 oz. respectively. He states that he knows 
“ authoritatively” of bream from the Wensum weighing 
g lb. 4 0z., 9 lb., and several others over 7 Ib. 
The White Bream, or Breamflat (<4dramis blicca) 
Fins. TEETH. 
Dorsal: 11 rays. Pharyngeal, in two rows, 1 
Anal: 22 to 27 rays. or 2 and 5—5 and 2 or1; 
Ventral: g or to rays. notched at the ends and 
Pectoral: 14 rays. slightly hooked. 
The white bream, or breamflat, is neither so large a fish as 
the common bream, nor so abundant in England, where it is 
only found in the Trent, the Cam, and a few other streams 
of the eastern watershed; but it has a wide range on the 
Continent north of the Alps, and is one of the commonest 
fishes of Central Europe. 
The marked and constant difference in dentition between 
this fish and the common bream—the teeth of the latter being 
arranged in a single series, those of the white bream in two rows— 
has led some naturalists to place it in the separate genus of 
Blicca ; but this seems an unnecessary and artificial separation 
of two species which are so closely similar in other respects. 
Besides the difference in the teeth, the breamflat may be 
distinguished from the bream—first, by its colour, which is 
always white and silvery with bluish reflections, without the 
brown and brassy tints of the other, the iris being silvery, flecked 
with green, the pectoral and ventral fins more or less red 
at the base ; second, by the nearly symmetrical lobes of the 
tail fin ; and third, by its average size, which is far less than 
that of the bream, a breamflat seldom attaining a foot in 
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