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period as ten years. Two or three specimens of this fish have 

 been recently secured for the Exhibition Aquarium. 

 Examples of a larger Sea-Horse than the very rarely oc- 

 curring British form, Hippocampus antiquorum, are frequently 

 imported from the French coast, notably by Mr. G. H. 

 King, of 165 Great Portland Street, for exhibition in our 

 public aquaria. This species, which, in addition to its 

 larger size, is distinguished by the filamentous processes that 

 are developed in a mane-like manner from its head and 

 shoulders, is known by the name of the Branched Sea- 

 Horse (Hippocampus ranulosus). A singular monstrosity of 

 the Gold Carp (Cyprinus auratus), having relatively large 



FIG. 34. TELESCOPE-FISH (Cyprinus auratus var.). 



projecting eyes and a wide-spreading lobate tail, long since 

 cultivated in China, as is evidenced by its frequent occur- 

 rence in the old paintings and tapestry of that country, is 

 not unfrequently imported and shown in aquaria. An ex- 

 cellent engraving of a perfectly proportioned example of 

 this singular variety, as figured in Dr. Giinther's ' Introduc- 

 tion to the Study of Fishes/ and known on account of its 

 projecting eyes by the title of the "Telescope-fish," is, with 

 the kind permission of Messrs. Adam and Charles Black, 

 the publishers of the above work, herewith annexed. 



