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THE VENDACE OR VENDIS. 



(Coregonus Willughbii*.} 



Owing to the difficulty of determining synonyms, but 

 little is known of this interesting fish beyond what has 

 been published in the Edinburgh Journal of Natural and 

 Geographical Science, for which we are indebted to Sir 

 William Jardine and in the Transactions of the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh, from the pen of Dr. Knox. 



In Scotland the Vendace is found only in the lakes 

 in the vicinity of Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, where some 

 singular opinions and traditions exist regarding it. Sir 

 W. Jardine says, " The Vendace is well known to almost 

 every person in the neighbourhood; and if among the 

 lower classes fish should at any time form the subject 

 of conversation, the Vendace is immediately mentioned, 

 and the loch regarded with pride, as possessing something 

 of great curiosity to visitors, and which is thought not to 

 exist elsewhere. The story that it was introduced into 

 these lochs by the unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots, as 



* CoregonuS) Gr. name of the species ; Willughbii, of Willughby, Lat. 



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