THE CARP TRIBE 



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condition obtains. The pharyngeal teeth may be arranged in either a single or 

 double series; and the scales do not extend across the sharp edge of the lower sur- 

 face of the hinder part of the body. Distributed over Europe north of the Alps, 

 portions of Western Asia, and North America, the breams are represented by about 

 fifteen species, of which the common bream and the white bream (A. blicea) are 



GROUP OF BREAM. 



White Bream, Zope, Zarthe, and Common Bream. 



(One-sixth natural size.) 



found in Britain. The white bream, shown in the upper figure of our illustration, 

 has the general color of the sides bluish white, without any trace of the golden yel- 

 low lustre, from the presence of which the common species is often termed the carp 

 bream. They may also be distinguished by the iris of the eye in the latter being 

 yellow, and in the former silvery white, tinged with pink. Yarrell writes that 



