. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. 384 BUI,LETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. with protruding eyes). The former was first introduced from China toward the close of the Japan-China war (1894-95). It has protruding eyeballs, and the body and the caudal fin are short. It is not usually bright colored, being black all over the body or yellowish red variegated with black spots or irregular patches. The deme ranchu, first brought from China six or seven years ago, has a globular body and, like the ranchu, no dorsal fin. The eyes not only protrude, but also are turned upwa
. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. 384 BUI,LETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. with protruding eyes). The former was first introduced from China toward the close of the Japan-China war (1894-95). It has protruding eyeballs, and the body and the caudal fin are short. It is not usually bright colored, being black all over the body or yellowish red variegated with black spots or irregular patches. The deme ranchu, first brought from China six or seven years ago, has a globular body and, like the ranchu, no dorsal fin. The eyes not only protrude, but also are turned upward 90 degrees. (PI. xxii and xxiii.) The foregoing are varieties for some time cultivated in Japan or recently introduced from China. New varieties, however, different from these, have lately come into existence, and I shall now describe how and in what order these have been TVPICAL FORMS OF GOUDFISH TAILS. 1. Arrow tail, lateral view. 2. Tassel tail, lateral view. 3. Forked tail, lateral view. 4. Three-lobed tail, dorsal view. 5. Bag tail, lateral view. 6. Rudder tail, lateral view. 7. Four-lobed tail, dorsal \'iew. " ;—When the Fisheries Exhibition was held in Tokyo in 1883, I saw there exhibited a highly interesting variety of goldfish, which was a wakin with a flowing caudal fin. Being struck with its extreme peculiarities, and inquiring how this variety came to be produced, I found that the exhibitor, who lived at Imaidani, Akasaka, Tokyo, had only one pond for breeding goldfish, and that there the said variety was produced. As in that pond all the different varieties just stated above were reared together, the strange new variety appeared to be a cross between the ryukin and the wakin; but I did not make at that time further investigation into the cause. That breed was called "watonai," which means'' a variety hitherto found neither in Japan nor in ; (PI. xxiv.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned p
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