VENDACE. 89 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. SALMOA'IU/E. 



THE VENDACE, OR VENDIS. 



Coregonus Willughbii, Vendace, Jardine. 



Vangis and Juvangis, Pf.nn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 420. 

 Vendace, Knox, Trans. R. S. E. vol. xii.p. 503. 



But little is known of this delicate fish beyond what has 

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

 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 Salmo alhula of Linnseus ; 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 with pleasure adopt the suggestion. 



The localities inhabited by this species of Coregonus are 

 as limited as the range of the species last described was 

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

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

 and in this district some traditions and curious opinions exist 

 regarding it. 



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