156 SALMON1D,E. 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYG11. SALMON 'ID &. 



THE POLLAN. 



Coregonus Pultun, The Pollan, THOMPSON, Proceedings Zool. Soc. for 1835, 



p. 77 ; and Magazine of Zool. and Bot. vol. i. 

 p. 247. 



A SHORT notice of the Pollan of Ireland, as made known 

 by Mr. Thompson of Belfast in 1835, was inserted in the 

 History of British Fishes, vol. ii. p. 88 ; and that gentleman 

 having most zealously followed up his zoological investiga- 

 tions in that country, I am now enabled to add from his re- 

 searches various further particulars. 



" The earliest notice of the species that I have seen," says 

 Mr. Thompson, " is in Harris's History of the County of 

 Down, published in the year 1744, where, as well as in the 

 statistical surveys of the counties of Armagh and Antrim, it 

 has subsequently been introduced as one of the fishes of 

 Lough Neagh, under the name of Pollan : but, as may be 

 expected in works of this nature, little more than its mere 

 existence is mentioned." 



" The habits of this fish do not, with the exception of its 

 having been in some instances taken with the artificial fly, 



