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tioned, we give it a place here as an appendage to 
the bleak, rather than forma diftinét article of a fifh 
which it is impoffible to clafs with certainty. 
It is evident that it is of the carp or Cyprinus ge- 
nus: it has only three branchioftegous rays, and 
only one dorfal fin; and in refpect to the form of 
the body is compreffed like that of the bleak. 
Its ufual length is two inches: the under jaw is 
the longeft: the irides filvery, the pupil black: 
the dorfal fin is placed nearer to the head than to 
the tail, and confifts of about fourteen rays: the 
fide line is ftrait: the tail forked, the tips black. 
The head, fides, and belly are filvery ; the back 
tinged with green, 
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