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ABKA-MTS. 
The character is, that the body is deep, belly not armed with roa 5 ^ 
points, dorsal fin short and placed behind the ventrals, anal fin long, 
and both without a spinous ray; no barbs at the mouth. 
LAKE BREAM. 
CAKP BREAM. YELLOW BREAM. COMMON BREAM. 
Cyprinus Latus, 
u « 
“ Brama, 
(i <( 
(( (( 
Abranvis vulgaris, 
“ Brama, 
*( ft 
JoNSTON; Table 29, f. 6. 
WiiiLouGiiBY; p. 248, plate Q 10. 
Linnaitjs. 
Bloch; pi. 13. Donovan; pi. 93. 
Jenyns ; Manual, p. 406. 
OuviEB. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 187. 
Yaiikell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 382. 
There are only some particular situations where the Lake 
or Carp Bream is found, but where it meets with a congenial 
soil and water, its numbers increase in a remarkable degree. 
And although sensitive to the variation of seasons, there is 
nothing in the climate of the United Kingdom that is hurtful 
to it; for as regards cold they abound even at the most northern 
parts of Norway, while with oiu'selves they associate in com- 
panies, and are lively in the warmest summers. But neither a 
swiftly-flowing stream nor pebbly bottom are suitable, and they 
chiefly rejoice in still water with a bottom of soft soil, whether 
in lakes and ponds or rivers. Nilsson remarks that they in 
Sweden are sure to be found where the pond-weed Isoetes 
lacustris grows; but slimy food, with other digestible vegetables, 
serves them for nourishment, and they devour with eagerness the 
paste prepared for them by anglers, by which they are attracted 
