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MALACOPT3ERYGII. — CYPRINID^. 
as far as we know, in the northern division, both 
of the one and the other hemisphere. Of this great 
host, one hundred and twenty-five species are 
marked by Bonaparte as European, and twenty are 
found, in greater or less abundance, in British 
waters. Austria and Prussia are the chief Carp 
countries in Europe, but the streams of tem- 
perate and southern Asia constitute the great 
home of the group. 
Among the twenty native species are some of 
the fishes most familiar to anglers ; such as the 
Carps proper (of which there are three kinds), the 
Gold-fish of our parlours and reservoirs, the 
grovelling and wallowing Barbel, the Gudgeon, 
the slimy Tench, the three kinds of Bream, the 
crimson-finned Roach, the silvery Dace and 
Grayling, the logger-head Chub,” the golden 
Rudd, the Bleak, whose scales are used in making 
artificial pearls, and the brilliant little Minnow, 
the desire and delight of truant school-boys. 
Genus Cyprinus. (Linn.) 
The true Carps, which are numerous, have the 
lips fieshy and moderately thick, but not plaited 
nor notched ; there are sometimes small cirri or 
tentacles at the corner of the mouth ; the jaws 
are of equal length. The dorsal is lengthened, 
with the first and second rays bony ; the second 
ray of this fin, as well as the first of the anal, 
is cut into strong teeth along its hinder edge. 
The fieshy tubercles which are found attached 
to the lips of some of the Carps, occasionally 
produced into cirri or beards, and which, in the 
Barbels, an allied genus, are large and conspicu- 
