GRAINING. 355 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGJI. CYPRINIDJE. 



THE GRAINING. 



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

 Cyprinus ,, 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. 1 ' 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, 

 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. 



