GRAINING. 355 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGll. CYPRINIDA. 



THE GRAINING. 



Leuciscus Lancastriensis, YARREI.L, Linn.Trans.vol.xvii.pt. 1, p. 5. 

 Cyprinvs ,, Graining, SHAW, Gen. Zool. vol. v. p. 234. 



PENNANT, in his published account of a Tour in Scot- 

 land and Voyage to the Hebrides, pp. 11 and 12, has the 

 following observation : " In the Mersey, near Warring- 

 ton, and in the river Alt, which runs by Sephton, Lanca- 

 shire, into the Mersey near Formby, a fish called the 

 Graining is taken, which in some respects resembles the 

 Dace, yet it is a distinct and perhaps new species." A 

 short description of this fish, occupying a few lines only, 

 appears in the quarto edition, as well as in two octavo 

 editions of the British Zoology ; and the Graining is also 

 shortly characterized by Shaw in his General Zoology as 

 already quoted. 



One of the streams which produce the Graining rises in 

 Knowsley Park ; and I have by the kindness of Lord Derby, 



I the President of the Zoological Society, been most liberally 

 supplied with specimens of this fish, and have thus been 

 enabled to point out its specific distinctions. 



