GRAINING. 
CHS ancastriensis, Yaeuell; Linn. Transactions, vol. 17, p. 6. 
British Fishes, vol. i, p. 406. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 411. 
perha^ notice of this fish was given by Pennant, but 
to littlT ^^Bt of opportunity for examination it amounted 
in assigning its provincial name and the situation 
ich It was found; and it remained for Mr. Yarrell to make 
habh greater portion of what is known of its 
kindred varies by which it is distinguished from the 
^ species. These particulars were originally contained in 
qu^t^il'' Transactions of the Linnscan Society, as 
it^° e above, and from which most of what we shall say of 
IS erived; to which I add that at the time when that paper 
^Ppeared I ^as indebted to the kindness of that gentleman for 
oured figures of this species, and also of the Blue Koach or 
^rine, presently to he described, 
unkn*^ although the Graining had remained to so late a date 
dist-°^^- naturalists, it is not scarce in its own limited 
said^^'^^ ™ northern counties of England. Indeed they are 
abundant in the River Alt, and some other branches 
fish f ■where they aflbrd much sport to fishermen, who 
tak in the same manner as they do for Trout. They 
Y . • ^ j ^ readily as they do a worm. Mr. Thompson also 
^ne examples of the Graining in the River Leam near 
mington, and at Guy’s Cliff, in W arwickshire. 
^ o prevent mistakes, as the examples believed to he of this 
hv of a different colour from what has been described, 
g, y arreU, that of the body approaching more nearly tt 
aw s description, we shall adhere closely to the description 
^®n y the former gentleman; adding only the remark, tha 
