
GOLDFISH BREEDS 

with the large spheroidal projecting eyes, having very small irides, turned 
upward over the head, so that the gaze of the fish is always directed to the 
surface. Its eyesight is very defective. The dorsdl fin has been entirely 
eliminated, as the scales are evenly imbricated over the back and sides. 
The body is egg-shaped, very tapering at the tail. The fins are broad 
and pendant, and the tail is carried at a slight downward angle and very 
widely spread to maintain the balance of the fish. Its movements are 
slow and languid. Due to its fixed upward gaze, the fish has acquired the 
habit of carrying its body at an angle, with the snout and eyes usually the 
highest points of the plane. European authorities depict this fish as 
“dolphin-tailed,” and 
without anal fins. 
These would not be as 
highly prized by Amer- 
ican fanciers. 
It is stated that this 
fish is bred in jars to 
which the light ts ad- 
mitted through a slit in 
the lid or cover, thus 
inducing the fry to 
gaze upward for both 
light and food. It 1s 
considered to be sacred 

FIG. 2g9—Chinese Celestial Telescope Goldfish and is kept in many 
Lateral view. ‘Two-thirds life size of the Oriental tem- 
ples, probably on account of its constant heavenward gaze. 
The Celestial Telescope is the most difficult of the imported gold- 
fishes to rear or to keep alive in the aquarium, the author having no in- 
formation of its successful breeding in the United States for successive 
generations and knows of but three authenticated instances of a long sur- 
vival of the imported fish. 
THE CHINESE EGGFISH 
Carassius auratus, var. chinensis oviformis. Fig. 30 
Several recent German authorities mention the Chinese Eggfish, a 
variety of the scaled goldfish which resembles the Ya-Tan-Yu or Duck- 
egg of Cuvier and Valenciennes and of de Sauvigny. It is described as 
having a perfect eggshaped body, very evenly convexed and rounded on 
all sides, from the head to the base of the tail; with flat eyes like those of 
the Fringetail, which very seldom incline to the telescopic. The dorsal 
and anal fins are absent, the pectoral and ventral fins are normal and the 
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