GOLD (A HP. 815 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. CYPRINIDJE. 



THE GOLD CARP. 



Cyprinus auratus, Linnsus. 



„ Bloch, pt. iii. pi. 93, 94. 

 ,, ,, Gold Carp, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 490. 



,, ,, Golden Carp, Flem. Brit. An. p. 185, sp. 3. 



,, ,, CuviER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 272. 



The date of the first introduction of the Golden Carp, 

 or Gold and Silver Fish, as they are more frequently called, 

 is differently stated by authors : 1611, 1691, and 1728, 

 are each recorded as the particular year in which they were 

 first brought over. The earliest seen in France were sent 

 there for Madame Pompadour. 



Pennant says, " In China the most beautiful kinds are 

 taken in a small lake in the province of Che-Kyang. Every 

 person of fashion keeps them for amusement, either in 

 porcelain vessels, or in the small basins that decorate the 

 courts of the Chinese houses. The beauty of their colours, 

 and their lively motions, give great entertainment, especially 

 to the ladies, whose pleasures, from the policy of that coun- 



