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VENDACE. 
The Vandoise of Duhamel appears to be the Dace. 
Coregonua Willoughhii, 
“ marcenula, 
Vendnce, 
Salmo marcenula. 
Yareell; Br. Pishes, vol. ii, p. 146. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 433. 
Dr. Knox in Zoologist, 1855, p. 4710. 
Blooh; pi. 28, f. 3? and if so, Nilsson 
refers it to Coregonua allula of 
Linnaaus. 
The Vendace is a small fish which in Britain is believed 
to be peculiar to Lochmaben and the neighbouring pieces of 
water, in Scotland, and into which, on account of its supposed 
superior delicacy for the table it is reported to have been 
conveyed from abroad at the suggestion of the unfortunate 
Queen Mary; but by Sir William Jardine, Bart., who first 
decided that it was a distinct species, this is thought to be 
unlikely, and from whence it was imported there appears to 
be no traditionary remembrance. But if the above account be 
correct, no small amount of care and skill must have been, 
exercised in the conveyance, since the living fish will scarcely 
bear exposure, at least for the requisite length of time; and 
therefore it must have been the roe that was transported, 
and the fish is exceedingly prolific, so that they exist in large 
numbers within their limited district, in spite of the depredations 
committed on them by the voracious fishes which are found 
in the same lakes. They swim with great activity in consid- 
erable schools, and sometimes with a remarkable separation of 
the sexes; and Dr. Knox, who studied the habits of this 
species with close attention, on dissection discovered that out 
of forty individuals taken at one time only two were males, 
and on another occasion, at the middle of December, of 
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