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all the northern rivers the Char will take a fly greedily; and 

 he remembers to have heard from a Norwegian fisherman that 

 on one occasion he thus caught a Char in the open sea, some 

 distance from the mouth of the river. 



The example described, which was a female from Loch 

 Grannock, was seven inches and a half in length; the shape 

 plump, deep, the belly protuberant; forehead a little rounded; 

 eye moderate; jaws equal, mystache extending to the hindmost 

 border of the eye; small incurved teeth in it and the jaws, 

 round the palate and on the tongue; in the latter widely 

 separate, in two rows; none seen in the vomer. Nostrils about 

 midway between the eye and the snout. Head flat between 

 the eyes, with a slight ridge. Small scales on the body; lateral 

 line straight, the pores obscure. The body becomes narrower 

 towards the tail. Dorsal fin anterior to the middle of the 

 length, with eleven rays, the first short, and two last from one 

 root. Anal with eleven rays, the third longest; pectorals reach 

 more than half the distance to the ventrals, ending pointed, 

 with twelve rays; ventrals sharp, long, with nine rays; tail 

 forked; hindmost rays of the anal opposite the adipose fin. The 

 colour black on the back and sides, softening into whitish on 

 the belly, with a patch of bright scarlet in front of the ventrals, 

 which fins are not close together; the whole back and sides 

 with scattered white spots; pectoral, ventral, and anal fins 

 yellowish, the latter with a Avhite border in front. This example 

 was distended with enlarged roe, of which the right lobe was 

 much larger than the left, so that the latter, together with the 

 stomach and entrails, were thrust far upward. Air-bladder 

 large. The aspect and proportions of this fish are visibly 

 different from those of the other Chars. It is said to attain 

 the length of ten inches, and as in all the Chars the males 

 are adorned with more splendid colours than the females; the 

 sides verging into blue or greyish brown, in the young with 

 broad dark transverse streaks on the sides; the tail in adult fishes 

 in this and the Torgoch with a broad white terminal border. 



It is remarked by Nilsson that such of those fish as go up 

 the stream the highest have their flesh reddest. 



A question arises, whether does this Alpine Char really 

 differ from the Salmo carpio of Linnseus, and of Fabricius in 

 his "Fauna Greenlandica?" which in Greenland is said to be 

 VOL. IV. 2 N . 



