196 BREAM. 



as a food, being considered as a coarse fish*. Ac- 

 cording to Dr. Bloch a hybrid breed often takes 

 place between this species and the Carp, when they 

 happen to inhabit the same waters. 



BREAM. 



Cyprinus Brama. C. latus ol'waceuSj ahdomine carneo, pinna 



dor sail parva, ani r adits viginti-septem. 

 Broad olivaceous Carp, with flesh-coloured abdomen, smallish 



dorsal fin, and twenty-seven rays in the anal fin» 

 C. Brama. Liri, Bloch. t. 13. Penn. Brit. Zool, 



A LARGE species : shape very broad or deep ; 

 length from two feet to two and a half: colour 

 olive, with a pale or flesh-coloured tinge on the 

 under parts : scales rather large : dorsal fin rather 

 small, and situated a little beyond the middle of 

 the back : anal fin extending from the vent nearly 

 to the tail, which is pretty deeply forked : at the 

 base of the ventral fins, on each side, an oblong 

 conical process. Native of many parts of Europe, 

 inhabiting the larger kind of lakes, still rivers, &c. 

 and sometimes seen in the Caspian sea. It is a fish 

 but little esteemed for the table, being considered 

 as coarse and insipid. 



* This is the case in our own country, but, according to Dr. 

 Bloch, it is in considerable esteem in many parts of Germany. 

 Like many other fishes, it probably differs considerably in flavour 

 accQrding to the nature of the waters in which it is found. 



