Class IV. 



BLEAK CYPRINE. 



487 



The body is oblong, rather round, and of a 

 pretty equal thickness the greatest part of its 

 length ; the scales are large. The irides silvery ; 

 the cheeks of the same color ; the head and 

 back of a deep dusky green ; the sides silvery, 

 but in the summer yellow ; the belly white ; the 

 pectoral fins of a pale yellow ; the ventral and 

 anal fins red ; the tail a little forked, of a brown- 

 ish hue, but tinged with blue at the end. 



Albumus. Auson. Mosella, 



126. 

 Able ou Ablette. Belon, 31Q. 

 Albumus. Rondel, fluviat. 



208. Gesnerpisc. 23. 

 Albula minor. Witinck, 



Witek, and Blike. Schone- 



velde. II. Tab. 1. 

 Bleak. Wih Ichlh. 263. Rail 



syn.pisc. J 23. 

 Cyprinus quincuneialis, pinna 



ani ossiculorum viginti. Ar- 



ted. synon. 10. 

 Cyprinus Alburnus. Lin. syst. 



531. Gm. Lin. 1434. Gro- 12. Bleak. 



nov. Zooph. No. 336. 

 Loja. Pawn. Suec. No. 373. 

 Spitslauben, schneiderfischl. 



Kram. 395 

 Ukeleyen. WulffBoruss. No. 



64. 

 LAble. Duhamel Tr. des 



Peschet. ii. 493. sect. 3. tab. 



23. Jig. 12. 

 LAble. Block ichth. i. 47- 



tab. 8./. 4. 

 Le Cyprin able. De la Cepede 



Hist, des Poissons. v. 5Q7. 



A HE taking of these, Ausonius let us know, 

 was the sport of children : 



Alburnos prcedam puerililus hamis. 



