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the approach of stormy weather it is observed to 

 be unusually restless ; quitting the muddy bottom 

 in which it generally resides, and swimming about 

 near the surface of the water. It has therefore 

 been sometimes kept by way of a living barometer, 

 since when placed in a vessel of water with some 

 earth at the bottom, it never fails to predict the 

 approach of a storm by rising from the bottom of 

 the vessel, and swimming about in an unquiet 

 manner near the surface. When kept for this 

 purpose it should be provided with fresh water and 

 earth two or three times a week in summer, and 

 once a week, or once in ten days, in the winter : it 

 must also be kept during frosty weather in a warm 

 room. It is a prolific fish, and is remarkably tena- 

 cious of life. 



SPINY LOCHE. 



Cobitis Tsenia. C. griseo-jlcrvcscens, fusco macufata, cirris sex 



brevibus, spina ulrinque subocithiri. 

 Yellow-grey Loche, with dusky spots, six short beards, and a 



spine beneath each eye. 

 Cobitis Taenia. C. cirris sex, spina suboculari. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



THIS is distinguished by a double spine situated 

 on each side the head, at a small distance before 

 the eyes. In colour and size it much resembles 

 the common loche, and is a native of Germany, 

 &c. inhabiting similar situations with the common 

 species. Dr. Bloch informs us that on placing a 



