FISH. 



1 CYCLOPTERUS MINUTUS. 



CYCLOPTERUS MINUTUS.— Po//as, Spicil. Zool.— vol vii., p. 12, pi. 3, figs. 7—9. 



Fab : Faun. Grctnl. — p. 135. 



Pallas's description of this extraordinary and beautiful little fish is most perfect. 

 It IS the Cyclopthe Menu of Lacepede,* the Boucher Menu of Bonnaterre,t and 

 probably the small species of this genus, alluded to by Mr. Couch, in his paper on 

 the " Natural History of Fishes found in Cornwall," published in the fourteenth 

 volume of the Transactions of the Linneean Society, p. 87. 



It is found in many parts of the Atlantic Ocean; Fabricius observed it m the 

 southern parts of Greenland, and great numbers were taken by us from amongst the. 

 extensive floating patches of seaweed that are met with off" that coast ; but it has never 

 been seen at any great distance to the northward of the Arctic circle. 



It rarely much exceeds an inch in length, and is therefore not used by the natives of 

 Greenland as food, but constitutes the chief means of subsistence to the several spe- 

 cies of gulls which are seen hovering over those banks of seaweed in astonishing 

 numbers. 



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 * Histoire Naturelle des Poissons — tome ii., p. 60. 

 t Planches de I'Encyclop^die Mcthodique. 



