. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. e Karausche of Germany, oftencalled the Crucian Carp or German Carp, is as protean in its forms asCypriniis carpio itself, and i;robably found its way from the far East inmuch the same manner : a large-headed form, C. gibclio, is often calledthe Prussian Carp, and a specially differentiated type, C. hiiccphalus, livesonly in the warm springs of Macedonia. The Gold Car]) or Gold-fish isbelieved by some comi)etent ichthyologists to be simply a variety of
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. e Karausche of Germany, oftencalled the Crucian Carp or German Carp, is as protean in its forms asCypriniis carpio itself, and i;robably found its way from the far East inmuch the same manner : a large-headed form, C. gibclio, is often calledthe Prussian Carp, and a specially differentiated type, C. hiiccphalus, livesonly in the warm springs of Macedonia. The Gold Car]) or Gold-fish isbelieved by some comi)etent ichthyologists to be simply a variety of theKarausche, and when it escapes from domestication, quickly reverts to itsancestral form and color. The Karausche hybridizes freely with the Carp, CARP, DA CE AND MINNO W. 417 and numerous curious and jicrplexing forms ha\c resulted from suchintermixturing. The so-called Carp of the Hudson appears to be either escaped Gold-fish or some inferior hybrid form of the Karausche type. Thoseintroduced into California a few years ago by Mr. Po])pe were an inferiorstrain of Scale Car]). The Carp of Virginia is a sucker, Carpiodcscyprinus. V*C:. THE GOLD CARP. The Gold-Carp, the favorite of aquarium-keepers, is constantly becomingmore popular, and many thousands have- been distributed by the UnitedStates Fish Commission within the past few years, incidentally, in con-nection with the work on food-fishes. It frequently escapes from domes-tication, reverts to the natural hue of olive-bronze, and is taken in netsand brought to market. The graceful long-tailed and triple-tailed vari-eties from Japan are reared by the Fish Commission as well as the silveryand the parti-colored forms, silver and gold. Mr. Seal has by artificialselection produced some grotesque forms, surpassing even them of Japan. The Gold-fish and its Culture, by Hugo Mulertt, of Cincinnati, isa book worthy of a place by the side of every aquarium. Henry W. Elliott,of Cleveland, has had fine success in hatching then in ope
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