A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



17. Minnow. Lfuciscus phoxinus, hinn. 

 Plentiful in places, but not generally dis- 

 tributed. 



18. Tench. Tinea vulgaris, Cuv. 

 Common in the deeper pools and ponds, up 



to 5 lb. weight. 



19. Bream. Abramis brama, Linn. 

 Common in the Nene, but with the excep- 

 tion of one or two lakes practically unknown 

 elsewhere. 



20. White Bream. Abramis blicca, Linn. 

 Adults occasionally taken, but scarce ; 



young up to 6 inches however frequent, 

 and locally called ' shallow.' 



2 1 . Bleak. Alhurnus lucicJus, Heck. & Kner. 

 Fairly common in the Nene. 



22. Loach. Nemachilus barbatu/us, Linn. 

 Formerly very common, but now much 



more scarce. 



23. Spined Loach. Cobitis tariia, Linn. 

 One single specimen was taken by Captain 



Vipan on a ford near Wansford. 



MALACOPTERYGII 



24. Salmon. Salmo salar, Linn. 



Was rare in the Nene in Morton's time. 

 Captain Vipan heard of one taken some years 

 ago at Alwalton and given to the late Hon. 

 Charles Fitzwilliam. 



25. Trout. Salmo trutta, Linn. 



The brown trout {S. fario, Linn.) is rather 

 plentiful in some of the streams ; few in the 

 Nene. Indigenous to most small streams in the 

 county, but Loch Levens were introduced 

 into Teston reservoir, Northampton, and 

 Cransley reservoir, Kettering. Specimens 

 nearly 8 lb. weight have been taken. 



26. Smelt. Osmerus eperlanus, Linn. 



In the spring ascends the river as far up as 

 Peterborough. 



APODES 



27. Eel. Anguilla vulgaris, Turt. 

 Very common. 



GANOIDS 



28. Sturgeon. Acipenser sturio, Linn. 



Specimens up to 8 feet long and 152 lb. 

 weight occasionally ascended the Nene above 



Peterborough in Morton's days. Captain 

 Vipan remembers one some years ago at 

 Woodston Stanch near Peterborough. 



CYCLOSTOMES 



29. Sea Lamprey. Petromyzon marinus, Linn, presented by Mr. W. T. Tomalin to the 



Morton records a specimen 4 feet long from Northampton Museum, 



the Nene. One was taken at Elton in an eel- 30. Lampern. Petromyzon ^uviaiilis, Linn, 

 trap. May, 1898, weighing 2i lb., and was Plentiful in brooks running into the Nene. 



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