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NOTE XIII. 



THE CHUB. 

 (Cyprirms Cephalus, or Leuciscus Cephalus.) 



" 27«e Chub, whose neater name which some a Chevin call." 



Michael Drayton. 



" Oh, it is a great logger-headed Chub ! " 



" Piscator " in Walton. 



The Chub is yet another " Carp ; " and as he seems " set 

 upon" by more than one angler and ichthyologist, he 

 has my sympathies. Naturalists have made the Leucisci 

 (XevKof " white "), or "White Fish," a sub-genus of the 

 Cyprinidce family. Hence our Chub is called Gyprinus 

 or Leuciscus, with the additional title of Cephalus, which 

 has been given to him on account of the size of his 

 "head"— in the Greek hephalos, (ae^aXo?) Latinized into 

 cephalus. The etymology is clear enough; but I take 

 the liberty of strongly objecting to it. I never thought 



