178 FROGS, TOADS AND SOME FEESH-WATEE FISH. 



In the mountain streams, occurs a small fish related to the minnow 

 {Phroxhius sp.). Where there are good permanent streams this species 

 attains a length of six or seven inches. It is very good eating, when 

 served up as white-bait, and in some places occurs in great numbers. 



Another inhabitant of the mountain streams is the little loach 

 {Cohitis tinia). There can be no doubt that this fish can survive pro- 

 tracted periods of drought, when all the mountain streams in which it 

 lives dry up. How it does this is not known, but it probably buries 

 itself deep down in the mud or sand and undergoes a process of 

 suspended animation. Be that as it may, when the rains come, refil- 

 ling the streams which have been perfectly dry for so long, this little 

 fish appears almost immediately. 



The Loach {Cobitis tinia). 



Another species is the giant loach [Misgurnus anguillicamJatus), 

 which, however, is found more in the permanent streams, and ako 

 occurs in the large rivers and marshes. This is very much more eel- 

 like than the smaller species. 



Though the pike (Esox) does not occur in Chinese waters, a species 

 is vei-y common in the streams and rivers of ]\Ianchuria, which find 

 their way intoi the sea on the east side of Corea. There it is known t'o 

 the Chinese as "kou-yu" (dog fish). 



SaJanx chinrusifs, 



A RM.iLL TRANSPARENT flJIELT-LIKE FISH OCCDEING 



IN THE Chihli Estuaries. 



Elopicthys dauricus, a very largo fish not unlike the salmon 

 occurs m the Yellow River, and in some of tlie larger rivers of Chihli' 



