478 



BREAM CYPR1NE. 



Class IV. 



* # Without Beards. 



5. Bream. LaBremme. Belon, 318. 



Cyprinus latus sive Brama. 



Rondel, fluviat. 154. Gesner 



pise. 316,317- 

 Brassem, Brachsem. Schone- 



velde, 33. 

 Bream. Wil. Ichth. 248. Raii 



Syn. pise. 1 1 6. 

 Cyprinus pinnis omnibus ni- 



grescentibus, pinna ani ossi- 



culorum viginti septem. Ar- 



ted. Synon. 4. 

 Cyprinus Brama. Lin. Syst. 



531. Gm. Lin. 1436. Gro- 



nov. Zooph. No. 345. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



Braxen. Faun. Suec. No. 



360. 

 Gareikl. Kram. 39 1. Brek- 



men. 

 Wulff. Boruss. No. 6Q. 

 La Breme. Duhamel Tr. des 



Pesches. ii. 504. sect. 3. tab. 



25. Jig. 1. 

 La Breme. Block ichth. i. 64. 



tab. 13. 

 Le Cyprin Breme. De la Ce~ 



pede Hist, des Poissons, v. 



599- 



-L HE bream is an inhabitant of lakes, or the 

 deep parts of still rivers. It is a fish that is very 

 little esteemed, being insipid. 



It is extremely deep, and thin in proportion to 

 its length; the back rises very much, and is 

 very sharp at the top ; the head and mouth are 

 small; on some we examined in the spring, 

 were abundance of minute whitish tubercles ; 

 an accident which Pliny seems to have ob- 

 served befals the fishes of the Lago Maggiore, 

 and Lago di Como.* The scales are very 



* Duo Lacus Italic in radicilus Alpium, Larius et Ver- 

 sanus appellantur, in quibus pisces omnibus amis Vergima- 



