108 SALMON1D.E. 



Such a Trout from Loclidow was presented to the Museum 

 of the Zoological Society by the Honourable Twiselton 

 Fienncs : the figure is a representation of the head of that 

 specimen. 



Mention of deformed Trout, as occurring in some of the 

 lakes of Wales, is also made by Pennant, Oliver, and Han- 

 sard. I am indebted to the kindness of P. Buckley Wil- 

 liams, Esq. of Pennant House, Montgomeryshire, for a notice 

 of the Hog-backed Trout of Plinlimmon, which is taken 

 occasionally in Bagail Lyn, ShepherdVpool, about one-third 

 up the Plinlimmon mountains, on the Machynllaith, or west- 

 ern side. This Trout, of which a figure is given in the Cam- 

 brian Quarterly Magazine for July 1833, is not unlike in 

 appearance that form which Perch sometimes assume, as men- 

 tioned in vol. i. page 5. 



L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. sent me a copy of the following 

 paragraph, which appeared in a Cambrian newspaper of the 

 28th of November, 1829. " As Abraham Harries and 

 George Stephens, who reside at Llangattock, Carmarthen- 

 shire, were fishing with their nets in the river Towey on 

 Friday last, they caught a fine fish of the Salmon species 

 which had two heads and two tails. The heads are joined 

 on one neck, and the tails meet about the centre. This fish 

 is now to be seen alive in a small pool at Llangattock." 



I have seen one very young specimen of our common Small 

 Spotted Shark with two distinct heads : the whole fish was 

 only about six inches long. 



