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of tins ; scales, browny-bronze at base, at tips silvery-whitish ; 

 irides, golden-bronze. 



Principal Characteristics of the Common Bream. — Throat 

 teeth cylindrical, with smooth crowns adapted for bruising, 

 placed in single rows, five teeth on each side. Mouth small, 

 toothless, without barbels. Scales placed in curves on the fore 

 part of the back, a naked place behind the ventrals. Length 

 of head to body as i to 3. Head small, nape of neck de- 

 pressed. Body deep and flat ; very convex above and below, 

 scales cotnparatively small. Scales of lateral line varying in 

 number from 52 to 58. Tail long, and deeply forked at the 

 end. Colour : generally yellowish white, becoming yellowish 

 brown by age. Cheeks and gill-covers, silvery white ; fins 

 light-coloured ; pectoral and ventral tinged with red ; back, 

 anal, and tail fins with brown. 



