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which the float, in lieu of being drawn under water, is laid flat 

 upon the surface. The fish takes a bait readily, but often spits 

 it out again, from being too indolent to swallow it. The 

 Swedish fishermen call it Aetare, or the glutton. 



In the Bavarian dialect, the term Micke is applied to fishes 

 that have a silvery glitter in the water, whence the specific name 

 blicca, given to it on account of the brightness of its colour as 

 compared with the carp-bream. 



The points of difierence between the bream-flat and the 

 carp-bream are : (i) its colour, which is almost silvery instead 

 of yellow ; (2) its size, which rarely exceeds i lb., whilst that of 

 the carp-bream frequently reaches 7 or 8 lbs. ; and (3) its teeth 

 (throat-teeth), which are in two rows on each side, numbering two 

 and five respectively, those of the carp-bream being placed in 

 only one row on each side, numbering five. This last point of 

 difference is so obvious and easily verified that no mistake can 

 possibly occur. 



The only waters inhabited, so far as I am aware,' by the 

 Pomeranian bream are the Logan River, near Belfast, a pond 

 at Bottisham in Cambridgeshire, some water near Wolver- 

 hampton, and the preserves at Dagenham Reach, Essex, well 

 known to ' London anglers. It may be readily distinguished 

 both from the white and carp-bream by the number of throat- 

 teeth on each side, which are in two rows numbering five and 

 three respectively, instead of, as in the former, in two rows of 

 five and two, and, as in the latter, in a single row of five. It is 

 also distinguished by the greater thickness of its body, which 

 is equal to half its depth, whilst in the other two the same 

 measurement is only equal to one-third of the depth. The 

 anal fin is shorter and has a smaller number of rays than that 

 of the bream-flat, which, again, presents a similar proportion 

 as contrasted with the carp-bream. ' 



The bream spawns in May, and the barbel in May or June ; 

 the latter depositing its ova, which, in. large fish, sometirhes 

 number 7,000 or 8,000, in the gravelly or shingly beds of the 

 stream, where they a^e immediately covered by, the. parent 



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