120 NEW YORK STATE MUSPJiUM 



waiiii waicr. The food in captivity iueludes hard ehini, earth- 

 woiiius. and, occasionally, live killifish. 



A. N. rhenoy refers to this species on page 245 of the 3(1 

 Aitiiiial Niport of the Comrnissioners of Fisheries, Game ami Forest 

 of the State of Xew York. 



In i'ennsylvania it is the coniniouest minnow in the Allegheny 

 iiu<l Sns(]|uehanna basins and is snflBciently common in the Dela- 

 ware. According to Pi-of. Co]ie it reaches 4 ponnds in weight 

 and is a fair food fish. 



This species is more characteristic of the small streams and 

 clear ponds and it takes the hook very freely; but its proper 

 mission is to serve as bait for the larger and choicer fishes. 



Genus tinca Cuvier 



Pseudobranchiae minute; mouth anterior; lips thick but desti- 

 tute of any horny covering; barbels two, one at either angle of 

 the mouth; pharyngeal teeth in one row, 4 or 5-5 or 4, cuneiform, 

 with a slightly hooked extremity; gill rakers short and lanceo- 

 late; dorsal tin rather short, commencing slightly behind the 

 origin of the ventral; anal short; caudal slightly emarginatc; 

 scalers small, embedded in a thick skin and covei'ed with mucus. 

 La I CI a I line com])lete. (After Dayj 



71 Tinea tinea (Linnaeus) 

 Tench (Introduced) 



ri/ini,iii.s tinru Linnaevs, Syst. Nat. od. X. I. 821, 1758; Lace'pede, Hisr. 



.Vat. Poiss. V, 491, 533, 1800. 

 TincH ri(l(j<iiis f^uviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XVI. 322. pi. 



4H4, 1842; IIeckel & Kner, Siissw. Fisclie. 75, fig. 34. 1858; (iUNTHER, 



Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VII, 264, 1868. 

 Tinea tinea Johdax A: K^KinrAXN, CIkm-Ic List Fislios N. A. 512, 1896. 



H. ;?; 1>. 12 to L:! (S or !) developed); V. 17; Y. 9-10; A. 9-10. 

 Scal.s ;:(i In :!1 90 to 115. Length of head four and one third 

 1o lum- .111,1 I lure foiirtlis; liight of body three and three fourths 

 to tour and oiM' toinlh in the total length including caudal. Kye 

 six and one half to seven and one half in length of head; Iwo 

 aM<l one ronrih in length (d" snout ; two to two and one fourth in 

 distance 1.<M w<cn eyes, hitrn.ibiial sjiacc tlat. The thickness 



