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Title: The illustrated natural history (microform)
Identifier: cihm_50039 (find matches)
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889
Subjects: Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles
Publisher: London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
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ANCIIOVV - Ijiiinnilis cncrii.ilrhi:liis. SIlAli,âJ/cw.i riihjiirh. â II cnnseqiionce possesses none, their place beinn; merely indicated by two minute black -lots on the sides of the head. The head is naked, but tlie body is covered with scales, and the jaws are lurnished with some email but sharp teeth. Its colour is whitish crev as IS, indeed, mostly the (.-ase with animals that have been Ion- deprived of the colour- pvin.ir sunlight. The grotto which contains this veiy remarkable little fish is in Iveiitucky. .r,.l,n?'irni"'i to that most valuable family of fishes, the Herring tribe, called technically Clupeidfe, from the Latin word dupca, a herring. The well-kninvn Anchovy is properly a native of the Mediterranean Sea, thourrh It often occurs on our coasts, and has once or twice been captured in our rivers. Indee"d one practical ^yrlter on I'.nti.sh fishes thinks that the capture of the Anehovy off ou; ^oes ,s a task that would be highly remunerative if properly undertaken, Jnd that, om ownS ^""' ^ ' ""°^ ^' ^"^^^ '"^'i'^^ ^^' Anchovies from This little fish has long been famous for the powerful and unique flavour of its flesh and IS in consequence captured in vast quantities for the purpose of being made into i r^Vr'w' T'^Tl I'?^ T^ ^'*^'"' ^'^^ "f 'li^'t in which the heart of an inr fi^ 'l )'"*'^^'t""^"l>'- i"w,<:vM-, the little fi.sl, is so valuable, that in the , r "^.^^^^ fr»m 13 ilvsh he disluniost dealcT. luo oftc-n adulrerate their goods iaig( ly, and palm off sprats and other comparatively worthless fish for the real Anchovy liiiiL' "-f?^

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