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TL 'BE-n LADDERED GROUT. 



latter species may be easily LH -cognise! i by the keeled upper surface of the tail, 

 aii'l the projecting muz/le : while tin- /ope is characterised by the great elongation 

 of tin- anal tin. which commences opposite to the dorsal, and extends nearly to the 

 tail, combined with the oblique direction of the cleft of the mouth. 



Rapfen. 



<a;ori> OF ISKEAM. 

 White Brciuii, Xopc, Xarthe, and Common Bream ( ( \ nat. size). 



lly this name is known in Austria the typical representative 

 J>7'"x i'<i i MI. !) of a small genus of carps, containing four species 

 from Ka>t'rn Kurope aixl Cliina, and somewhat intermediate in structural 

 characters between the breams and the bleaks. Agreeing with the former in the 

 shortness of the gill-rakers, these fishes alwavs have the lower jaw projecting 

 considerably beyond tin- upper, which is but sliiditlv protractile; the anal fin 

 never lias less than thirteen ravs: and the sharp lower edge of the, abdomen 

 "hind tin- pelvic lius is crossed h\- the scales. Common in Kastern and Northern 



