FAIRIES AND CARP. 41 



These I found were caused by large carp coming to the 

 surface and smacking their hps as they took in great 

 gulps of air. 



PRUSSIAN CARP. 



Cypriniddi, 



{Cyprimis giheUo.) 



Local names : The Croicger, Warwickshire ; Gibel. French : La 

 Carpe Gibele, German : Der Giehel. 



This fish is often confounded with the common carp. 

 The common carp, however, has two little barbules at 

 each corner of the mouth, while in the mouth of the 

 Prussian carp no beards whatever exist. 



The Gibel Carp is thicker, more chub-like than the 

 common carp ; it very much resembles the rudd. This 

 fish delights in stagnant water, marshy and cattle 

 ponds, and the flesh does not assume the taste of the 

 water in which it lives. It lives a long time out of the 



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water, possessing in this respect more vitality than the 

 carp. There are two other kinds of carp, the Crucian 

 Carp [Carassiiis vulgaris ; German : Die Karaiische ; 

 French : Le Carassin), and the Bastard Carp {Cyprinus 

 Kollarii ; German : Die Karpf Karaiische ; French : 

 Le Carpe Kollar). 



CAT OR WOLF FISH. 



Acanthopteri. Blcnmidcc. 



[AiiarJdchas lupus. ) 



German : Der Seeicolf or Seekatze. French : Le Loup. 

 Dutch : De Zecioolf. 



The Wolf Fish, or Sea Cat, is a most powerful brute. 

 It is not unfrequently met with off the coasts of Scot- 

 land and Yorkshire ; its food being shell-fish and Crus- 

 tacea, which it readily crushes by means of its strong 

 teeth. It is remarkably strong, active, and rapacious ; 



