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SALMON ID.E. 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



SALMONID^E. 



THE VENDACE, OR VENDIS. 



Cvregonus Willughbii, Vendace, JARDINE, Illust. Scot. Salm. pi. 6. 



,, ,, Vangis and Juvangis, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 420. 



,, ,, Vendace, KNOX, Trans. R. S. E. vol. xii. p. 503. 



,, Martenula, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 432. 



BUT little is known of this delicate fish beyond what has 

 been published by Sir William Jardine, Bart, in the third 

 volume of the Edinburgh Journal of Natural and Geographi- 

 cal Science, and by Dr. Knox, in the Transactions of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh. Sir William Jardine, in his 

 original communication, considered this species very closely 

 allied to the Salmo albula of Linnceus ; but the difficulty of 

 fixing synonymes satisfactorily from the short descriptions of 

 the older authors has since led to a request from him that 

 the name of our distinguished British naturalist should be 

 attached to it, and I with pleasure adopt the suggestion. I 

 believe, however, that our Vendace is the C. Martenula and 

 C. albula of Continental authors. 



In Scotland the Vendace is only known in the lochs in the 

 neighbourhood of Lochmaben, in Dumfries-shire ; and in this 

 district some traditions and curious opinions exist regarding it. 



