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P(MErvANIAN BEEAM. 
Cyprinus Buqyenha.gii, 
Ahramis Buggenluigii, 
Bloch; PI. 95. 
OuYiEE. Thompson. 
Taeeell ; Br. Pislies, vol. i, p. 391. 
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A. THIRD species of British Bream was first announced by 
Mr. William Thompson as obtained by him in Ireland, and we 
shall borrow his account of this fish, as it is contained in his 
Natural History of that portion of the United Kingdom; but 
it has also been found in England by Mr. Yarrell, to whom it 
was presented from the Dagenham Breach, and afterwards from 
another portion of the Thames; and it has likewise been obtained 
by Mr. Jenyns in Cambridgeshire. But previous to this it had 
been described by the Prussian naturalist Bloch, who obtained 
examples ftom Pomerania; fi’om which country they had been 
sent to him by a gentleman whose name he affixed to the 
species, and who therefore must be pronounced its first 
discoverer. 
It has not been recognised in any other country besides 
those we have here specified; and everywhere it appears to be 
a scarce species. We may supxiose therefore that it is less 
prolific than the others of this genus, or that it is beset with 
much more formidable enemies. 
Mr. Thompson’s notice of it is, that it has been taken in the 
sluggish Kiver Lagan, in which the (Lake) Bream is abundant. 
On inspecting the produce of a fishing-rod at the River Lagan, 
near Belfast, I detected a Bream dill’ering from the common 
species. It agreed so fully with Bloch’s description of the 
Cyprinus Buggenliagii as to satisfy me of its identity, the only 
difference consisting in the number of rays in the pectoral fin, 
twelve being enumerated by him, and eighteen appearing in the 
specimen; “several of them, however, being very short may have 
