The fin-ray formula is 



GOLDEX TENCH. 



Dorsal lo — i i. 

 Pectoral 17. 

 Ventral 10. 

 Anal g. 



5r 



The scales of the Tench are very small, and the whole body is abundantly supplied with 

 mucus. 



^OLDEN JeNCH. 



rriHE Golden Tench is an extremely handsome fish ; it is merely a variety of the Tinea 

 -•- vulgaris. It is said by Mr. F. Buckland to have been introduced in 1867, by Sir Stephen 

 Lakeman, into this country ; but we are not informed where from. In a letter I received 

 last May (1878) from Mr. Higford Burr, of Aldermaston Park, Reading, that gentleman 

 informs me that Mr. Buckland gave him two Gold Tench in September, 1862, and that the.se 

 fortunately proved to be male and female. These two fish were placed in a pond by them- 

 selves and have bred. "I have now," says Mr. Burr (May 8th., 1878), "a great number; 

 what we catch with rod and line in the summer I place in a small pond until cool weather 

 sets in, when I am happ}- to distribute them to any gentleman who may apply for them." 

 I do not know in what part of Germany or Austria this golden variety is found. Siebold, 

 writing in 1863, says, — "This magnificent, black-spotted, orange-yellow or red variety of 

 the Tench, which is known by the name of Gold Tench {GoId-scJilcihc), and which I have 

 met with as a cultivated and an ornamental fish in Upper Silesia, has never yet been seen 

 by me in the fish market here (Munich), nor was it noticed by Giinther in the Neckar 

 district ; according to Heckel it occurs in the still waters of Salzach, which, however, I 

 must doubt." — {Die Siisseiisoasserfisclie von Mitteleuropa, p. 107.) 



The specimen figured, which weighed one pound, was given to me by Mr. Masefield, who 

 has set apart one of the ponds at EUerton Hall for the breeding of these fish. 



