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included amongst the Scandinavian fishes ; and Swedish 

 naturalists up to this time imagine it to be confined to 

 certain waters. 



It is said to spawn about the end of June ; but nothing 

 seems known of its proceedings at the lek, or of the growth 

 of the fry. 



Ekstrom has seen a specimen twenty-two inches in length, 

 and says the greater portion of the fish at the lek weigh from 

 seven to eight pounds ; but if the fishermen in my vicinity 

 have not confounded this fish with some other, it attains to a 

 much larger size in the Wenern. 



CYPRINUS GRISLAGINE. 



Cyprinns Grlslagine, " Artedi," 



" Nilsson, Prod." p. 27. 



" Scand. Fishes/' p. 69, pi. II. 



Leuciscus ... "Kroyer," vol. in. p. 472. 



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This fish, which with us was called the Ardrag, or the 

 Stafliny, but by Swedish naturalists the Stamm, was very 

 common in my vicinity, as well as in all the more northern 

 portion of Scandinavia, even to high up in Lapland. But 



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