MINOW. 



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the dorsal : anal pretty near the tail, which is 

 slightly forked. Native of the seas about the Cape 

 of Good Hope, and first described by Gronovius, 

 from a dried specimen : colour uncertain. 



MINOW. 



Cyprinus Phoxinus. C. atro-uridis Jlavo ccerukoque mrius^ 



abdomine argent echrubescenfe, cauda furcafa. 

 Blackish-green Carp, with blue and yellow variegations, red* 



dish-silvery abdomen, and forked tail. 

 Cyprinus Phoxinus. C. jjinna ani radiis octo, macula fusca ad 



caudam, corpore peUucido. Lin, Syst. Nat. 

 Cyprinus teretiusculus, pinnis ventralibus anali dorsalique radiis 



decern. Block, t. Q.f. 5. 



This well-known species may be numbered 

 among the most beautiful of the European fishes : 

 it seldom exceeds the length of three inches, and 

 is of a slender and elegant shape : the colours are 

 generally as stated in the specific character, but 

 vary greatly in difierent specimens, and at difierent 

 seasons of the year : sometimes the colour of the 

 upper parts is rather blue than green, and the ab- 

 domen in some is of a bright red, in others white 

 or silvery with a tinge of yellow : the scales are 

 very small : the lateral line strait and of a golden 

 yellow. The Minow is frequent in clear gravelly 

 streams and rivulets in many parts of Europe. In 

 our own country it is observed to appear first in 

 March, and to disappear in the beginning of Oc- 

 tober, at which period it secretes itself beneath the 

 mud, &c. It is of a gregarious nature, and fre- 



