374 



GOLD FISH. Class IV. 



178. Gold- Kingo, the Gold Fi/h. K*m- tranfverfa bifurca. Lin.fyft. 



en. pfer Hift. Japan, I. 137 525. Faun. Suec. tab 2. 



Kin-yu. Du Halde Hiji, Grononj. Zoopb. No. 342, 



China. I. 19. 315. Gold Fiih. £^w. 209. 



Cyprinus auratus. Cyp. pin- Kin-yu, five carpio auratus, 



na ani gemina, cauda Bajier fuhfec. II. 78. 



THESE fifti are now quite" naturalized in this 

 country, and breed as freely in the open 

 waters as the common carp. 



They were firft introduced into England about 

 the year 1691, but were not generally known till 

 1 72 8, when a great number were brought over, and 

 prefented firft to Sir Mathew Dekker, and by him 

 circulated round the neighborhood of London, from 

 whence they have been diftributed to mod parts of 

 the country. 



In China the mod beautiful kinds are taken in a 

 fmall lake in the province of Che-Kyang. Every 

 perfon of fafhion keeps them for amufement, 

 either in porcellane vefTels, or in the fmall bafons 

 that decorate the courts of the Chinefe houfes. The 

 beauty of their colors, and their lively motions, 

 give great entertainment, efpecially to the ladies, 

 whofe pleafures, by reafon of the cruel policy of 

 that country, are extremely limited. 



In form of the body they bear a great refem- 

 Wance to a carp. They have been known in this 



ifland 



