THE CHUB. 3 01 
its fituation. It riles to a common trout fly, and feeds 
on worms, catterpillars, graihoppers, and other coleopte- 
rous infcfts, that happen to fall into the water *. 
The body is longer than that of the carp ; the head 
flattened ; the back cf a dufky green ; the fides and belly 
filvery, with a fhade of a gold colour, if the fi(h be old 
and in high feafon. The fcales are remarkably large and 
angular, like thofe of the carp ; the mouth is of a mode- 
rate fize, round when the jaws are opened, and wholly 
deftitute of teeth. The number and difpofition of the 
fins refemble thofe of the other filh belonging to this 
genus ; the tail is forked. 
The Bleak f . 
This fpccies is frequent in the Englijh dreams, as well 
as thofe of the Continent. According to Jufouius, the 
taking of thefe fillies was anciently the amufement of 
children, as that of the following fpccies is at prefer, tj. 
The flefn is foft, and dellitute of fat, making no very 
commendable morfel. 
They are at fome feafons apparently feized with a dis- 
order, which feems to occafion them great agony : They 
are then feen tumbling about near the furface of the 
water, and are incapable of fwimming far from the place; 
but 
* Brit. Zool. Species 1 75. 
Cyprtnus Alburnus, Lin. Syft. Alburnus, Rondel. 
| Alburnos prssdam puerilibiis hamis. 
