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It never attains to any considerable size, seldom, I believe, to 

 a pound in weight. Those that came under my own obser- 

 vation were not much more than half that weight. 



With the exception of the C. Farenus, of Linnaeus and 

 Nilsson which fish, at the present day, is believed to be 

 no other than the young of the yellow bream and the 

 several species enumerated, there is no other of the Bream 

 tribe, I believe, considered by northern naturalists as belong- 

 ing to the Swedish Fauna. 





THE IDE. 



Cyprinus Idus, "Retz. Faun. Suec.," p. 358. 



"Nilss. Prod.," p. 27. 



"Ekstrom," p. 5. 



... " Scand. Fishes," p. 59, p. 11. 

 juciscus ... " Kroyer," vol. in. p. 447. 



The Ide (Id, Sjo-Karp, Sw. ; C. Idus, Linn.) This fish, 

 which though included by Yarrell and other authorities in 

 our Fauna, is hardly known in England, was very plen- 

 tiful indeed with us in the Gotha and the Wenern, 

 as also throughout Scandinavia generally ; and there are 

 few of the waters of any magnitude, from Scania to 



