POWAN. 



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ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



SALMONID.Z. 



THE POWAN. 



Coregonus La Cepedei, 



The Powan, PARNELL, Annals of Nat. 



Hist. vol. i. p. 161. 



,, clupeoides, The Herring-like Coregonus, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. des 



Poiss. 8vo. edit. torn. x. 

 p. 386. 



DR. PARNELL, whose Ichthyological investigations in 

 Scotland have not been confined to the " Fishes of the 

 Forth " only, has described in the first volume of the Annals 

 of Natural History a species of Coregonus, to which he has 

 attached the name of La Cepedei ; this species having been first 

 noticed, or perhaps distinguished, by this celebrated French 

 naturalist. This fish is found in Loch Lomond, one of the 

 largest and most picturesque lakes in the west of Scotland. 

 It is not unlikely that some of the species of Coregoni found 

 in the northern lakes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, may 

 exist in the lakes of Scandinavia; M. Nilsson, Professor of 

 Natural History at Lund, describing in his Prodromus Ich- 

 thyologia Scandinavicee no less than eight species as belong- 

 ing to that country : but from a certain general agreement in 



