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; EIORKA CARP. 



- Cypririus Bjorkna. C. pinna ani radiis triglnta quinque, Lin^ 

 Si/St, Nat p. 532. 

 Carp with thirty-five rays in the anal fin. 



Length about five inches : habit short and 

 broad: colour silvery: scales rather large: fins 

 cinereous: tail forked: native of the Swedish lakes: 

 allied to the Rud and Roach : spawns in the month 

 of June^ and is in some esteem as a food. 



FAREN CARP. 



Cyprinus Farenus. C. fusco-argenteuSf squamis magnis suh-^ 



angulatis, pinnis fuscisy caudafurcata. 

 Dark silvery Carp, with large subangular scales, dusky fins^ and 



forked tail, 



Cyprinus Farenus, C, pi7ina ani radiis triginta-sepfem, iridihus 

 flams, Lin. Syst, Nat. 



Habit similar to that of the former species: 

 body compressed and broad: colour dull silvery, 

 with a dusky tinge on the upper parts: scales 

 rather large and subhexagonal : fins dusky: anal 

 fin very long : tail forked ; the lower lobe exceed- 

 ing the upper in length: native of the Swedish 

 lakes, but, according to Artedi, considered as a 

 rare species. 



