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taken by Mr. Emerson in the canal two or three years ago filled six horse 

 buckets, and that a number of them had attained 7 lbs. -weight. 



Ward kept them in a small pond to recover for two or three months 

 after their capture, and he states that it was only some of the small ones 

 that died : all the large survived. 



In the summer of 1836 also, when the water was low in the Lagan 

 canal, great numbers were netted and carried away in sacks. 



August 23, 1837. — I examined several sjjecimens of bream which I got 

 ofi" the strings of fishers in the Lagan yesterday. [The following are Mr. 

 Thompson's notes respecting these fishes.- — Ed.] 



No. 1.^ — 6| inches long; 54 or 55 scales on lateral line. D. 11; A. 

 2+27; C. 19; P. 17; V 1|9. Depth to length, 1 to 3^. 



No. 2. — 6^ inches long; 53 to 55 scales on lateral line. I). 11 ; A. 

 2+27 ; C. 19 ; P. 18 ; V. 1+10. Depth to length, 1 to 3^. 



No. 3.— 6i inches long; 58 scales on lateral line. D. 11; A. 2+26; 

 C. 19; P. 17; V. 1|9. Depth to length 1 to 3^. 



Li the muddy Lagan this species is commonly of a " silvery bluish 

 white," which the A. Bllcca is described to be, in contra-distinction to 

 A. Brama. 



March 15, 1836. — On ins])ection of the proceeds of a fishing-rod at 

 2nd locks of Lagan canal, 1 found two breams. The larger about 12 

 inches long ; its yellow colour, and possession of 30 rays in anal fin, 

 proved to me that it was the Cyprinus Brama. The other specimen was 

 8 inches long, and of a silvery blueish cast of colour ; it had, besides, but 

 26 rays in anal fin. This induced me to obtain the sjoecimen and see if 

 it were really the C. Blicca. 



The following are particulars of it :— D. 11 ; A. 26 ; C. 19 ; P. 17 ; V. 

 9. Depth at commencement of dorsal between 3 and 3^ times in whole 

 length (see Jenyns, p. 407). 



Number of scales in lateral line, and number in depth, cannot be reck- 

 oned accurately, as the fish has been injured. Those in lateral line, I 

 would presume, were 52 ; it is slightly depressed at nape, as C. Brama. 



Colour. — Rays of P. fin tinged with scarlet, which colour appears like- 

 wise on the few first rays in all the other fins ; irides silvery, delicately 

 tinged with pink, but a yellow line around the pupil of the eye. 



It thus appears that this specimen is intermediate between the C. Brama 

 and C. Blicca, as described by Jenyns and Yarrell, both in " form " and 

 " colour." I have, however, preserved it for future examination. 



The Large-scaled Bream, Pomeranian Breayn, Yarr., 

 Ahramis Burjcienhayii, Thomp., 

 Cyprijius, — Bloch, 



Has been taken in the sluggish river Lagan, in which the common bream 

 {A. Brama) is abundant. 



To the following communication, which I made to the Zoological So- 

 ciety in 1837, nothing more can at present be added: — 



* Ahramis Bug()enhaf/ii, Large-scaled Bream. Cyprinus Buggenliariii, 



* On my showing this specimen to Mr. Yarrell, he immediately produced 

 from his o^vn collection another example of the species of nnicli larger size, 

 measuring 14 inches in length, which liad been presented to him by a friend, 

 who caught it in the waters of Dagenham Breach, in Essex, from which place 

 others have since been taken. My specimen was taken about the same time in 

 the Lagan. This bream is at once distinguished from both the other species of 

 British bream, by the much greater thickness of its body. 



