162 ANECDOTES OF FISHES 



Indians do not fear it ; they keep themselves in 

 constant motion. The quee-quee is covered with 

 hard scales, of moveable rings. Four-eyed fish is 

 a foot long, something like a frog ; it has not four 

 eyes, but under each eye is a part of an eye, 

 which serves it, as a reflecting mirror, to observe 

 what passes under the water. 



Baron Albert Von Sack. 



VENDISE. 



This beautiful and delicate fish, of the salmon 

 tribe, is entirely confined to Lochmaben, near 

 Dumfries, although known in Switzerland and 

 other parts of the Continent. It resembles the 

 herring, but has a far more agreeable flavour. It 

 measures from four to ten inches. Its back is 

 green, and covered below with silver scales. The 

 forehead of the vendise is pellucid, and bears the 

 shape of the human heart. The unfortunate 

 Queen Mary is said to have introduced it into 

 Lochmaben from the Continent. This fish is a 

 famous bait for pike. It dies the instant it is 

 taken out of the water. 



NONDESCRIPT FISHES. 



Mr. Pennant gives an account, in his View of 

 Hindostan, of a small fish, always to be found in 

 the rainy seasons in places where it was dry be- 

 fore : it is in high estimation. He also mentions 

 a fish found about the Foundling Hospital, when 



