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SALMOMD/T:. 



THE VENDACE, OR VENDIS. 



Cnregnntis Willughhii, Vendace, Jardine. 



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

 Vendace, Knox, Trans. R. S. E. vol. xii.p. 603. 



But little is known of this delicate fisli beyond what has 

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

 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 Sahno alhida of Linnaeus ; 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 witli ])leasure adopt the suggestion. 



The localities inhabited by this species of Corcs^onus are 

 as limited as the range of the species last described was 

 shown to be extensive. The Vendace is only known in the 

 lochs in the neighbourhood of Lochmaben, in Dumfries-shire; 

 and in this district some traditions and ciu'ious opinions exist 

 regarding it. 



vol.. II. H 



