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ranian bream, a species of fish which had only been 

 discovered, for the first time, in this country, three 

 years previous, and then in but one locality in Eng- 

 land, was taken in the water in the park at Bottis- 

 ham Hall. No other individual had occurred before, 

 nor has it been met with since, though often sought 

 for. Mr. Yarrell first recorded this species as British, 

 having received a specimen from Dagenham Breach 

 in Essex, which water communicates with the 

 Thames, and from thence probably the species was 

 introduced into it.* In the instance above men- 

 tioned, the water is supplied from a running stream, 

 which rises at a spring issuing out from underneath 

 the chalk, about a mile up. No fish can possibly 

 find their way of their own accord into this piece of 

 water, except such as come with the stream that sup- 

 plies it. And I can only attribute the occurrence of 

 this bream in it to the circumstance of its having 

 been brought from the river, when very small, along 

 with other small fish of the common kinds, which 

 have occasionally in times back been supplied to the 

 water in question to serve as food for the pike which 

 are preserved therein. Yet it is observable that I 

 never knew of this species of bream being taken in 

 the river, though repeatedly fished ; and I have often 

 been present myself in former years, when it has 

 been dragged by nets, with the view of ascertaining 

 what species it produced. 



The above specimen of the Pomeranian bream is 



* Mr. Yarrell informs me that he has since received a speci- 

 men of the Pomeranian bream from Wolverhampton in Stafford- 

 shire. 



