
GOLDFISH BREEDS 
stand from the sides as though they were ruffled, and giving to the fish 
somewhat the appearance of being covered with barnacles. The scales are 
unevenly imbricated, so that they appear somewhat scattered, like those of 
the mirror carp; although they entirely cover the body of the fish. 
The singular appearance of these fishes led American breeders to 
suppose them to be diseased, but later they were recognized as a variety 
of the Japanese Telescope, the distinctive peculiarity being the scale 
formation. The colors are mottled red and white with black and white 
fins and tail. So far as is known, these fishes are now extinct in the 
Eastern section of the United States, the last importation having been 
received in 1897. Recent repeated inquiries and efforts to obtain breed- 
ing fishes by direct importation have been unsuccessful, leaving it an open 
question whether they should be recognized as a separate breed or an 
accidental variation which was lost. 
THE CHINESE TELESCOPE GOLDFISHES 
This singular breed is of Chinese origin but is also bred in Japan. 
In it may be observed the peculiarities of the Chinese breeder and his desire 
to produce abnormalities. The head and snout are considerably shortened; 
the body is rounded and egg-shaped, the dorsal fin erect and set far back 
on the spine; all the lower fins are paired; and the double tail is divided to its 
base and carried straight out at a downward angle. ‘The vertebral column 
ain is also curved downward behind in an ab- 
1. Common Goldfish, 
Fringetail, etc. —fat normal way to produce a hunchbacked 
: oS condition. There are both scaled and 
transparently-scaled Telescopes, the for- 
Se ae mer being generally recognized as of 
Japanese breeding. As the name implies, 
3. Chinese Telescope the principal peculiarity is the develop- 
Goldfishes—as ovoid’. ‘ment of the projecting eyes, Hie. L7.swalem 
have the character of spheres, ovoids, 
4s. Ghinele Telescope tfuncated cones or Seamented, splieresyses 
Golsfishes — as tn” upon the sides of the head, the eyeballs 
appearing to almost wholly project from 
5. Chinese Telescope the’ orbits, and the cornea forming a seg- 
Goldfishes—as segment- 
saokeree ment of a much smaller sphere than does 
the eyeball proper. As a result of this 
6. Chinese Celestial peculiarity, the anterior portion of the eye 
Telescope Goldfishes as : S 
spheres; with | pupie 1S) Ole aGlite than the larger posterior 
turned upwards. portion. The iris is also very distinctly 
FIG. 17—The Eyes of outlined. In addition to the abnormally 
Goldfishes. p, 

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