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of Cambridge, the Rev. L. Jenyns has discovered that this 

 second species of Bream inhabits the Cam ; and I am in- 

 debted to that gentleman for a specimen of the fish, with 

 some further remarks. Referring to the communication 

 of the Rev. Mr. Sheppard, Mr. Jenyns says : " This second 

 species of Bream is very abundant in some parts of the 

 river Cam, where it is called by the fishermen the Bream- 

 flat : it does not attain the size of the Carp-Bream, rarely 

 exceeding ten or twelve inches. It is probably the Cypri- 

 nus bltcca of Bloch ; though I have never seen the fins so 

 red as they are represented in his figure/' 



I have been very recently favoured by the Rev. Richard 

 Lubbock, of Tombland, near Norwich, with a communication 

 that this fish is also occasionally met with in some of the 

 broads and rivers in that part of the county of Norfolk ; but 

 that it is limited both as to its location and numbers. Its 

 mode of biting, when angled for, is singular : it appears more 

 prone to rise than to descend ; and the float, consequently, 

 instead of being drawn under water, is laid horizontally on 

 the surface, by the attack of the fish on the bait. A speci- 

 men of each of the two Bream described in this work, 

 obligingly sent me by Mr. Lubbock from the same lo- 

 cality, differed much less in colour than those previously 

 received from Cambridgeshire. The example of A. blicca 

 had two rays less in the anal fin than the fish from the 

 Cam. 



That this fish is distinct from the well-known Carp- 

 Bream, the description will evince. Bloch says of this spe- 

 cies, that it is very common on the Continent, being found 

 generally in lakes and slow rivers; that it is tenacious of 

 life and breeds fast, but is not in any esteem for table, 

 though encouraged as supplying food for Pike and other 

 voracious fishes. 



