. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. m III ââ *»*â¦Â« Ni: mmm. 332 THE TENCH. Tire beautiful Gold-fish (Ci/pr(nus aurdfus), so familiar as a pet and so elej^ant as it moves round tlie glass globe in wliiuh it is usually kept, is another menil)er of 'tliis ,, and miportant geiuis. It seems to liavo bei-n brouglit to this country from China and has almost acclimatized itself to the cold seasons of England. Its habits and splendid clothing are too well known to need description. Anoth
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. m III ââ *»*â¦Â« Ni: mmm. 332 THE TENCH. Tire beautiful Gold-fish (Ci/pr(nus aurdfus), so familiar as a pet and so elej^ant as it moves round tlie glass globe in wliiuh it is usually kept, is another menil)er of 'tliis ,, and miportant geiuis. It seems to liavo bei-n brouglit to this country from China and has almost acclimatized itself to the cold seasons of England. Its habits and splendid clothing are too well known to need description. Another well-known member of the same genus is tlie Barbel, a fine but not brilliant fish, whicli is common in many of the Englisli rivers. Tins fish may easily be known, from the four fk-shy appendages, called beards or baibules, which hang from the head, two being placed on the nose and tlie other two at each angle of tiie mouth. It is one of the mud-loving tish, grubbing with its nose in the soft banks for the purpose of unearthing the aquiitic larvie of°various insects which make their homo in such places, and being, in all probability, aided bv ii. barbules in its search aft(!r food. The following remarks on the habits of the Barbel are by Mr. V. T. Buckland :â "After fishing, without any sport, a place in the river near Old Windsor, which had been previously well baited, I gave uji the idea in consccpience of the iufonnatiou of a man who was cutting willows, ilc said he 'could show me where the Barbel were.' Accordingly, we dropped cpiietly down in the ])unt a few yards from where we had been fishing, and pointing down under a bush he said, 'Look there, sir!' Underneath a thick hedge was a deep bank, hollowed out into ledg(\s. 'I'he root's of a willow-tree grew out of this bank sonu; six yards into the stream, and an archway large enough to wheel a wheelbarrow through. Peering down into the water, I saw at the lower entrance of the archway a dark movin
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