66 THE CYPRINUS GRISLAGINE. 



with its limits to the southward I am unacquainted. It is 

 also an inhabitant of the eastern Skargard. 



Though following Swedish naturalists, in their designation 

 of this fish, it is no other, I imagine, than our common 

 Dace (C. Leuciscus, Linn.). Ekstrom, indeed, decidedly 

 leans to that opinion ; and English Ichthyologists, to whom 

 I submitted several very fine specimens from the Wenern, 

 entertain no doubt as to this being the case. 



The following are the fin-ray formulae of the Swedish and 

 English fishes, in question, taken from specimens, and they 

 show the close anatomical concordance. 



D P. V. A. 



Ardrag ... 9 16 9 10 ; scales on the lateral line 49 to 52 ; 



above the line 8, below the line 3. 

 English dace .9 16 9 10 ; scales 49 ; above 8, below 3. 



This fish, be it C. Grislagine or C. Leuciscus, is found 

 as well in lakes as in rivers. In the latter it keeps much 

 in the current ; and the fishermen in my neighbourhood 

 described it as shy and quick in its movements, in avoiding 

 the net. 



The flesh is white, tolerably free from bone, and palatable ; 

 but owing to the generally small size of the fish, it is not 

 much sought after. 



The spawning season with the C. Grislagine was with us 

 at the end of April or beginning of May, in short, pretty 

 soon after the ice broke up. 



This fish never attains to any considerable size; six to 

 eight inches being its usual length, and only in one instance 

 have I heard of its weighing a pound. 



The peasants in my neighbourhood captured at times great 



