2io The Hiflory of ANIMALS* 
imbricated manner, but they adhere fo clofely, that they eafily fall off on the Tides 
and belly j they are of the moft beautiful filvery, white, but on the back they have 
fomewhat of a bluifh tinge: the fins are all of a whitifh colour $ the pectoral ones 
are perfe&ly white, and have fourteen or fifteen rays 5 the belly fins are whitifh, and 
have nine rays 5 the back fin is whitifh, and has nine or ten rays ; the pinna ani is alfo 
whitifh, and has one and twenty rays ; the tail is forked and whitifli; the back is con¬ 
vex all the way s but the belly, between the ventral fins and the anus, is contra&ed 
into a ridge. 
It is a very common fifh in our rivers, and ufually is found in vaft numbers toge¬ 
ther. Ray, Willughby, and the reff call it Alburnus ; Jonfton, Albuia ; and Schone- 
veldt, Albuia minor j we call it the Bleak, and the Germans, Bleig and Weisfifch. 
Cyprinus quincuncialis maculofus maxilla fuperiore longiore\ 
cirris duobus . 
!The f mall , fpotted Cyprinus , with the upper jaw longejl\ (I^UtSgtOft* 
and with two beards . 
This is alfo a fmall fpecies ; it rarely grows to more than four or five inches in 
length, and has lefs breadth with this length than any other fpecies of this genus, 
the body being of a rounded form, and fomewhat deprefled : the head is large and 
depreffed ; the upper jaw is longer than the under 5 there is on each fide a fingle, ob¬ 
long, white beard at the angle of the mouth: the eye is large, and the iris of a filvery 
colour, with Tome admixture of yellow : the back is all the way rounded and thick 5 
the belly is fiat; the anus is placed in the middle, between the belly fins and the pin¬ 
na ani: the lateral line is black, almoft ffraight, and .runs along the middle of the 
fides: the fcales are large 5 they are of a dufky colour on the bac.k, and whitifh on the 
belly and fides; there are feven or eight large black fpots running longitudinally along 
the middle of the back, from head to tail; on the fides alfo, near the lateral lines, 
there run about nine large fpots, of a blackifh colour, but thefe, in fome of the fifh, 
are fcarce vifible ; and, befide thefe, there are a great number of fmaller black fpots 
on the head, back, and fides, and on the fins and tail: the back fin is fmall, and has 
ten rays $ the pedtoral fins have each fifteen rays; the pinna ani is white, and has nine 
or ten rays j the tail is broad, and is a little forked $ it has nineteen rays j the vertebras 
are forty. 
We have this in moft of our fhallow rivers, where the water is clear, and the bot¬ 
tom gravelly or Tandy. The antients call it Gobio and Gobius; the later writers, Go- 
bius fluviatilis and Fundulus; fome, Gobius non capitatus; the Germans call itGref- 
ling and Grundling; the French, Gonion and Vairon. 
Cyprinus admodum latus et tenuis pinna ani offtculorum 
quadraginta . 5 Cl)Z 
The broad and thin Cyprinus , with forty bones in the 
pinna ani . 
This is a very fingular fpecies; it grows to fix or feven inches in length, and is of a 
depreffed form, very broad and thin : the head is very fmall and flatted ; the fkull is 
of a yellowifh brown colour, and is bright, and in fome degree pellucid : the eyes are 
large, and the iris of a filvery colour, except that in the upper part, over the pupil, it is 
yellowifh: the fcales are very fmall, and all of them of a filvery colour, and all the 
fins are whitifh: the pedoral fins have fixteen rays each; the belly fins have each nine 
or ten; the back fin has ten or eleven : the pinna ani is large and broad, and has 
forty, and fometimes forty-one, rays; the tail is very forked, and has nineteen rays. 
This fpecies is frequent in the lakes of Germany, and fome others parts of Europe, 
and though as unlike the bleak, as two fifh of the fame genus can eafily be to one 
another, it has been confounded by many with it. Arifiotle and the other Greek 
writers call it Baleros, and from them Rondeletius, Jonfton, and others, Ballerus ; 
fome Bullerus, and others Blicca and Pleftya ; the Germans call it Blick and Houerk ; 
and the French, Bordeliere. We have it not in England, though it is, in a manner, 
univerfal in other parts of Europe, 
Cyprinus 
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