Class IV. 



BLEAK CYPRINE. 



437 



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. 



Alburnus. Auson. Mosella, 



126. . 

 Able ou Ablette. Belon, 31Q. 

 Alburnus. Rondel. Jluviat. 



208. Gesner pise. 23. 

 Albula minor. Witinck, 



Witek, and Blike. Schone- 



velde. II. Tab. 1 . 

 Bleak. Wil. Jchth. 263. Raii 



syn.pisc. J 23. 

 Cyprinus quincuncialis, pinna 



ani ossiculorum viginti. Ar- 



ted. synon. 10. 

 Cyprinus Alburnus. Lin. syst. 



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



nov. Zooph. No. 336. 

 Loja. Faun. Suec. No. 373. 

 Spitslauben, schneiderfischl. 



Kram. 3Q5 

 Ukeleyen. WulffBoruss. No. 



64. 

 L'Able. Duhamel Tr. des 



Peschee. ii. 4g3. sect. 3. tab. 



23. Jig. 12. 

 L'Able. Block ichth. i. 47. 



tab. 8./. 4. 

 Le Cyprin able. De la Cepede 



Hist, des Poissons. v. 597. 



X HE taking of these, Ausonins let us know, 

 was the sport of children : 



Alburnos prcedam puerilibus hamis. 



