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length, with brown and yellow longitudinal rays and ten 

 barbels. It remains in the mud of ponds, where it exists 

 a long time,, even when these ponds are frozen or dried 

 up ; when the weather is stormy it comes to the sur- 

 face, agitates it, and troubles the water ; when it is cold 

 the fish retires very carefully into the mud. It swal- 

 lows the air incessantly, which it gives out per anum, 

 after having changed it into carbonic acid, as has been 

 well observed by M. Ehrman. Its flesh is soft, and 

 has a flavour of the mud ! . 



Cobitis tcenia, L. 12., Bl. 31. 2. Six barbels ; body 

 compressed, of an orange-colour, marked with a series 

 of black spots. It is distinguished from the two former 

 species by a forked and moveable prickle, formed by 

 the suborbital, in front of the eye. It is the smallest 

 of the three. It keeps in rivers, between stones, and 

 is but little in request 2 . 



Anableps 3 , Bl. 



For a long time, and very erroneously, united to 

 cobitis, or the loaches. These fishes have very peculiar 

 characters ; in the first place, their eyes, very pro- 

 jecting, under a vault formed on each side by the 



1 Add the three species of cobitis with unarmed cheeks, described 

 by Buchanan, Fishes of the Ganges^ p. 357 359. 



2 Add Cobitis geta, Buchanan xi. 96. and the seven other species 

 with armed cheeks described by that Ichthyologist Fishes of the 

 Ganges, p. 350. 356. 



s From aVa/3\i7rw, (to raise the eyes, or look up,) a name given 

 by Artedi. 



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