MWe iV (BR EUA Me 309 
olive, {potted with black: the fide line ftrait ; the 
fides beneath that filvery: the belly white. 
The tail is forked; that, as well as the dorfal fin, 
is fpotted with black. 
Me ache Bc Re A ME 
La Bremme. Beloz, 318. grefcentibus, pinna ani offi- 
Cyprinus latus five Brama. culorum viginti feptem. 4r- 
Rondel. fluviat. 154. Gefner ted. fynon. 4. 
pife- 316, 317. Cyprinus Brama. Liz. fpf. 531. 
Brafflem, Brachfem. Schonevelde Gronov. Zooph. No, 345. 
= Nera Braxen. Faun. fuec. No. 360. 
Bream. Wil. Icth. 248. Rait Gareikl. Kram. 391. Brekmen. 
Sits pifes 116. Wulff Borufs. No. 66. 
€yprinus pinnis omnibus ni- 
HE bream is an inhabitant of lakes, or the 
deep parts of ftill rivers. It is a fith that is 
very little efteemed, being extremely infipid. 
It is extremely deep, and thin in proportion to its 
length. The back rifes very much, and is very 
fharp at the top. The head and mouth are {mall : 
on fome we examined in the fpring, were abun- 
dance of minute whitifh tubercles; an accident 
which Pliny feems to have obferved befals the fifth 
of the Lago Maggiore, and Lago. di Como*. The 
{cales are very large: the fides flat and thin. 
The dorfal fin has eleven rays, the fecond. of 
which is the longeft: that fin, as well as all 
* Duo Lacus trate in radicibus Alpium, Larius et VERBANUS 
appellaniur, in quibus pifces omnibus annis VERGILIARUM oF fu €xi/~ 
tant, /quamis confpicué crebris atque preacutis, clavorum caligariun: 
efigis : nec amplius quam circa eum menfem, vifuntur. lib, ix. ¢. 18. 
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