THE 



EDINBURGH JOURNAL 



OF 



NATUHAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE. 



DECEMBER 1830. 



ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 



ART. I. Observations upon rare or little known British Fishes. 

 By Sir William Jardinb, Bart. F.R.S.E., F.L.S., M.W.S., 

 F.Z.S., &c. 



No. I.-^The Vendace or Veridis* of the Lochmahen Lochs. (Plate I.) 



The genus Coregonus seems to have been established by Artedi 

 for the reception of the gregarious Salmonidce, with membranous 

 mouthsj similar to that of the common herring and its allies^ and 

 clothed with large and strong scales. He also included the gray- 

 lings in this genus ; but it is probable that the generic term will 

 be restricted to those species which are destitute of the large and 

 powerful dorsal tin, and that this form, to which our native species 

 belong, will rank only as a sub-genus to the former. The two 

 species of this country, which strictly belong to Coregonus, seem 

 to be referrible to the C. maxilla superiore longiore, pinna dorsi 

 ossiculorum quatuordecim, Artedi ; Salmo Lavaretus, Linn. ; and 

 the Salmo Marcenula, Gmel.: the former agreeing with the schelley 

 of Ulswater and Lochlomond, the true guiniad ; the latter, with 

 the Vendace of the Lochmaben lochs. 



The elegant little fish, which is the subject of the present remarks, 

 has been confounded by nearly all our modern naturalists, — even 



* I am not sure of the proper orthography of this name. Pennant spells it 

 Vangis, and thinks it a corruption from the French veiidoise, a dace. — I have 

 kept it as near the ordinary pronunciation as possible. If the fish were really in- 

 troduced by the French, Pennant's etymology is very probably right. 



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