THE SEA-BREAMS. 473 



The Common Sea-Bream (Pagell med flack, or, with 

 spots, S\v. ; Pagellus centrodontus, Cuv.). This species, 

 which more abounds in the Mediterranean than elsewhere, 

 and which may at once he distinguished in the adult by 

 the large black spot on the shoulder, has been occasionally 

 taken off the western coasts of both Sweden and Norway, 

 and mostly in the summer time. According to Kroyer, 

 two specimens have also been met with on the Danish 

 shores (one of them nineteen inches in length), both of 

 which are now in the Copenhagen Museum. Little seems 

 to be known in the North of the breeding or other 

 habits of this fish. 



The Black Sea-Bream (Gra Hafs-Ruda, or, grey sea- 

 crucian, Sw. ; Cantharus griseus, Cuv. & Val.), which 

 is chiefly met with in the more southern parts of the 

 Atlantic, is also now and then captured in the Scandi- 

 navian seas, as well in the Christiauia Fjord as on the 

 southern coast of Sweden, a specimen from whence, six- 

 teen inches in length, is now in the Lund Museum. 



Ray's Sea-Bream (Silfoer-gra Hafs-Braxen, or, silver- 

 grey sea-bream, Sw. ; Brama Hai/i, Cuv. & Val.). The 

 proper home of this fish is the Mediterranean, in parts 

 of which sea it is very numerous. It is somewhat rare 

 on the coasts of Sweden and Norway ; some few have, 

 however, been captured there, one amongst the number 

 in the Bohus Skargard, another on the coast of Scania, 

 but for the most part they have been cast on shore during 

 severe storms, in one instance as far north as Bergen. 

 Kroyer speaks also of three that within the space of 

 thirty years had been thus stranded on the shores of 

 Zealand, two of which were about twenty inches in 

 length, and on the authority of Eaber, of another that 

 was taken off the coast of Pomerania in the autumn 

 of the year 1826. 



The Plerycomlus Brama, B. Fries. The only known 



