[20] Yarrell, ‘British Fishes,’ vol. ii. 1836, p. 10, 12, 35.
[21] W. Thompson, in ‘Annals and Mag. of Nat. History,’ vol. vi. 1841, p. 440.
[22] ‘The American Agriculturist,’ 1868, p. 100.
[23] ‘Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.’ Oct. 1852.
[24] Loudon’s ‘Mag. of Nat. Hist.’ vol. v. 1832, p. 681.
[25] Bory de Saint Vincent, in ‘Dict. Class. d’Hist. Nat.’ tom. ix. 1826, p. 151.
[26] Owing to some remarks on this subject, made in my work ‘On the Variation of Animals under Domestication,’ Mr. W. F. Mayers (‘Chinese Notes and Queries,’ Aug. 1868, p. 123) has searched the ancient Chinese encyclopedias. He finds that goldfish were first reared in confinement during the Sung Dynasty, which commenced a.d. 960. In the year 1129 these fishes abounded. In another place it is said that since the year 1548 there has been “produced at Hang-chow a variety called the fire-fish, from its intensely red colour. It is universally admired, and there is not a household where it is not cultivated, in rivalry as to its colour, and as a source of profit.”
[27] ‘Westminster Review,’ July, 1867, p. 7.
[28] “Indian Cyprinidæ,” by Mr. J. M’Clelland, ‘Asiatic Researches,’ vol. xix. part ii. 1839, p. 230.
[29] ‘Proc. Zoolog. Soc.’ 1865, p. 327, pl. xiv. and xv.