260 FISH CULTUEE 



Lion-Head: The lion-liead or hooded goldfish is as 

 yet an exceedingly rare fish in the United States, al- 

 though well-known among the 9'apanese. Its origin 

 is disputed, some crediting it to Japan and some to 

 Korea. Whichever its native place, the lion-head is 

 certainly a very grotesque fish. It is nearly globular 

 in form, red in colour and without a dorsal. It has a 

 long double caudal, very similar to a fringe-tail, but 

 with rather short pendant pectorals, ventrals and anal. 

 When the fish is two years old, the short head becomes 

 covered by a hood-like excrescence of crimson, due to 

 ihe growth of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of small 

 rounded tubercles, evenly covering the whole head and 

 throat. As age increases the tubercles develop until 

 they become long and hair-like, slightly resembling, 

 excepting in their crimson colour, the mane of a lion. 

 Viewed from the front, the face of the fish, when the 

 hood is full grown, is not unlike that of the king of 

 beasts. In younger specimens, while the tubercles are 

 yet short, the growth has the appearance of an old 

 woman's hood, or the be-whiskered face of the con- 

 ventional hobo of the cartoonists. 



Calico: Many consider the calico goldfish among 

 the most beautiful of all the different types, excepting 

 perhaps, the veil-tails. It is a square-tailed telescope,' 

 usually sealeless, with the head, body, tail and fins 

 thickly mottled with blue, brown, yellow, and red and 

 black. Like most of the choice types, the body of the 

 calico is short and thick; the pectorals, ventrals and 



