The Minnow. 33 



XI. 



THE MINNOW, MINIM, OR PINK. 



PLATE x. 4. 



(Called GiRULUS by the Romans.} 



j| HOUGH the Minnow is one of the smallest 

 fishes, he is as excellent food as many of tjie 

 most famed. He retires in the winter into 

 deeps. He is taken with gentils and pieces 

 of small worms, and is so well known as not to need fur- 

 ther mention. He is a*n excellent bait for trout, salmon, 

 grayling, perch, and eels. 



SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION. 



ORDER IY. Abdominales. Ventral fins on the abdomen, 

 behind the pectoral. 



GENUS CYPRINUS. Cyprinus Phoxinus. Minnow. 



" Abdominal Malacopterygii. Cyprinidce. 



" Leuciscus Phoxinus. CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 276. 



Minnow. FLEM. Brit. An. p. 188. sp. 68. 



" Cyprinus LINN^US, Block, pt. i. pi. 8. fig. 5. 



Minnow. PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 489. 



DON. Brit. Fish, pi. 60. 



" The fin rays are 



"D. 9, P. 16, V. 8, A. 9, C. 19. 



" The top of the head and back are a dusky olive mottled and 

 lighter in colour on the sides ; the belly white, and of a fine rosy or 

 pink tint in summer varying in intensity according to the vigour of 

 the fish ; the irides and gill-covers silvery ; dorsal fin pale brown ; 

 pectoral, anal, and ventral fins lighter ; the tail light brown with a 

 dark spot at the base of the caudal rays." 



YARRELL, Brit. Fish, vol. i. p. 373. 

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