goldfish. 
Oyprinus auralus, 
it 
tt 
Linn4!us. Cuvieh. Bloch; pi. 15. 
Jlnyns; Manual, p. 403. 
Yahrell; Bi-. Pistes, vol. i, p. 361. 
tributed tt IheZnILelt of“tbelth ^°i 
actons in luxurious captivity as alsf t ^ 
profit of the more industrious el ? ^ occupation and 
affords them in procuring and nv ® employment it 
pf its racei for Ts therel no otK^^^ « --ties 
in such a condition of training so tt 
decidedly shewn such a tendency to be bfl 
and colour. We arc informed hat n 
special business to collect the spawn " ^ 
mors, and to sell it to merchants who sen7 it ' to 
districts of the coiinti-v te k , different 
-Inch also ,hc ^ 7 p 1 “ “““ 
»c kept i„ p„.,,,.i„ v,lr.„ the 1 „ IT-T” ‘'’'y 
captivity they are not prolific except i \ 
nature, of which warmth is an 
they live and thrive k that ^^at 
beyond the power of any living ° “Pagination seems 
instance it is known that fn ma sustain. As an 
- a short Buppl7 c old 77 7“°^ 
employed in th7 eng ne 0077 , 
engine dams or ponds into k u are called 
engine is thrown for the purpIse*^of h ^ 
dams, the average temperature of wk'^r”^ 7“ 
it is common to keen^Goldfi b degrees, 
tbese situations they ‘mSttlv 7 b " ' 
of lower temperatui-r that 77 "7 
climate. Three pairs of tb ' n exposed to variations of the 
VOL. IV. ^ere put into one of these 
