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still are distinguished from the Gudgeons by their four cirri — B. ca- 

 ninus, Bonnelli ; B. plebeius, Val. ; B. eques, Id.* 



Gobio, Cuv. 



The Gudgeons have both the dorsal and the anal short; both are with- 

 out spines or cirri. 



We have a species dotted with brown, which, notwithstanding its 

 smallness, is highly esteemed. They live in shoals in the rivers of 

 France; they seldom exceed each eight inches in length j. 



Tinca, Cuv. 



The Tenches combine, with all the characters of the Gudgeons, the pe- 

 culiarity of having very small scales; their cirri also are very small. 



There is one of these fishes, Cyp. tinea, L., Bl. 14, (The Tench), 

 short and thick, of a yellowish-brown, found in France, which is 

 only eatable when taken in certain streams, and is sometimes of a 

 line golden colour — Cypr. tinea auratus, Bl. 25. It prefers stag- 

 nant waters. 



Cirrhinus, Cuv. 



The Cirrhines have the dorsal larger than that of a Gudgeon; the cirri 

 on the middle of the upper lip J. 



Abramis, Cuv. 



The Breams have neither spines nor cirri; their dorsal is short and 



placed behind the ventrals ; a long anal. Two species are found in France. 



A. vulgaris; C. brama, L., Bl. 13. (The common Bream). The 



largest species of this subdivision : there are twenty-nine rays in the 



anal, and all the fins are obscure. It is a good fish, and is very 



abundant. 



C. blica; C. latus, 6m., Bl. 10; The Little Bream; La Borde- 

 liere, or Hazelin; have reddish pectorals and ventrals; twenty-four 



* Add the Barbels of the Caspian Sea: Cyp. mursa, Guldenstedt, Nov. Coniin. 

 Petrop. XVII, pi. xviii, f. 3, 5;— C. bulatmai, Pall., and the Barbel of the Nile; Cyp. 

 binny, Forsk. 71; Sonnini, pl.xxvii, f. 3, or Cyp. lepidotus, Geoff'. Eg. Poiss. du Nil., 

 pi. x, f. 2. 



N. B. Bruce, after giving the history of the true Binny, applies to it, through a 

 mistake, the figure and description of a Polynemus, which he must have taken in the 

 Red Sea: hence the ideal species, Polynemus niloticus, Shaw. 



Barbels are also found in India: such are Cypr. calbasu, Buch., Fishes of the 

 Ganges, pi. 11, f. 33;— C. cocsa, Id., pi. iii, f. 77;— C. Daniconius, Id. XV, 89;— C. 

 kttnama, Russ. 204;— C. morula, Buch. XVIII, 91;— C.gomus, lb. IV, 82;— C. Rohita, 

 lb. XXXVI, 85, and several others to be described in our Icthyology; they are also 

 found in America. 



I Add, Cyp. capoeta, Guldenst, Nov. Com. Petrop. XVII, pi. xviii, f. 12; — C. cur- 

 muca, Buch. Trav. to the Mysore, III, pi. xxx; — C. bendelisis, Id., lb., pi. xxxii. 



+ Cyp. cirrhosus, Bl. 411; — C. mr/galu, Buch., pi. vi, f. 79; — C. nandina, Id. VIII, 

 84? 



