GREAT LAKE TROUT. Ill 



weigh between fifty and sixty pounds ; and the Rev. Mr. 

 Low, in his Fauna Orcadensis, mentions a Trout of thirty- 

 six pounds' 1 weight or more, which, besides the Common 

 Trout, occurs both there and in Shetland. Mr. William 

 Thompson of Belfast, when at the meeting of the British As- 

 sociation at Edinburgh in 183-i, saw a specimen of the Great 

 Trout of Loch Awe, and recognised it as identical with the 

 Great Trout, or Buddagh, of Lough Neagh. Two examples 

 of large size, about thirty-five inches each in length, were 

 lately exhibited at the Zoological Society by Mr. Thompson.* 

 These were obtained from Lough Neagh, where the younger 

 and smaller sized fish of this species are called Dolachans. 

 Mr. Thompson has since learned that this fish exists in 

 Lough Corrib, in the county of Galway, and also in Lough 

 Erne, in the county of Fermanagh, thus proving it, to use 

 Mr. Thompson's words, to be an inhabitant of the three 

 largest lakes in Ireland ; and it will probably yet be found 

 in most of the lakes of any considerable extent in that 

 country. Mr. Thompson has very kindly supplied me with 

 a young fish of this species from which the representation 

 below was taken, and which, differing from specimens of large 

 size in having the spots more numerous, may be an accept- 

 able addition. 



* See the Report of the Proceedings of the Society for June 9th, 1835. 



