Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America . or Bream. v( iMlTluN uK THK ^IIINKK. :iU7 Its head is snuiU, smuotli, aiul dupresscil aihove. The mouthis small, ami ilfstitut*. of ti-fth. The eyes arc lar;<(, withyellow iriiles. The body is very deep, being very nearly one-thirdof the lenirth, exeludinj; the eaudal fin. The branehiostej^alrays are three in niiinber; the i)ect()ral, sex tiiteen; ventral,nine ; dorsal, nine ; anal, fourteen ; and caudal, nineteen. The upper part ottlic luail, hack, and sides, dark glossy green;lower sides, a
Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America . or Bream. v( iMlTluN uK THK ^IIINKK. :iU7 Its head is snuiU, smuotli, aiul dupresscil aihove. The mouthis small, ami ilfstitut*. of ti-fth. The eyes arc lar;<(, withyellow iriiles. The body is very deep, being very nearly one-thirdof the lenirth, exeludinj; the eaudal fin. The branehiostej^alrays are three in niiinber; the i)ect()ral, sex tiiteen; ventral,nine ; dorsal, nine ; anal, fourteen ; and caudal, nineteen. The upper part ottlic luail, hack, and sides, dark glossy green;lower sides, and belly, silvery white, with i^oldcn fin, bruvMiish yellow ; ])cc-torals, reddish bufV; ventrals,ilull lake; anal and eaudal. dull reddish brown, streaked withlake. Of this group, there are several speeies, all abundant, amiaflording mueh sport to sehool-boys and young ladies. To theangler, exeept as bait, they are little worth, and to deseribc onevariety, as a type of the species, will be atnply snllieient. 208 CYPRINID^. AMERICAN BEEAM. A hram Is Versicolor—Agassi American Bream. The Bream of America, of which there are several inferiorspecies, like the others of this family which I have enumerated,never grows to any size, and is very little accounted by theangler in general, though in some of the western waters, wherethey bite freely, they are sometimes angled for with the smallred worm, and are accounted a delicate pan-fish. They are distinguished from the other Cypiini, by the greatdepth of their bodies, by having the dorsal set very far back,behind the extremity of the ventral, and by the great length ofthe dorsal fin. The tongue is smooth, as well as the jaws and palate, but thelower pharyngeal bones are set with large teeth. Like the other Cyprini, the Breams are among the least car-nivorous of fishes. This is a beautiful species. The back is dark, of a hair-brownhue, varied with many coloured changeable reflexions; the sides, CANADIAN 2
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