PLATE LX. 
The Minow feeds on aquatic plants and worms, and is remarkably 
prolific. It is a small kind, scarcely ever exceeding the length of 
three or four inches. Both sexes are represented in the annexed 
Plate, In point of number, the rays in the fins nearly accord in both. 
The dorsal fin contains eight rays : pectoral ten rays : ventral sevea 
rays ; anal eight ; and the caudal, nineteen; 
