328 VARIETIES OF CHARR — VENDACE. 



The only place where it is found in this country is 

 Bala Lake and Lynn Tegid in Wales. 



The gwyniad resembles the common trout in shape, 

 but is thicker in proportion ; his length, ten to twelve 

 inches ; head, small and very taper ; the upper lip 

 extends considerably beyond the lower, so that the 

 mouth appears placed beneath ; the general colour is a 

 silvery grey, the scales large, the base of each scale 

 marked with a dusky speck ; the fins are pale brown. 



The gwyniad is not found in Windermere, or any 

 fish at all resembling it. There is a fish found at Ulls- 

 water and its tributaries, known by the name of the 

 Skelly, which bears a considerable resemblance. His 

 skin is almost of a pearly whiteness. 



THE VENDACE, 



[Coregonus alhula. Coreiionus wUliKjhbii.) 



German : Die Kleine Mardne. French : La petite Maraene 

 Marenken, Danish : Mariner. Norwegian : Laagsild. Swedish : 

 Siklqja. 



This fish is found in the lakes of Germany, Western 

 Prussia, Poland, and Pomerania. 



There is only one place in Scotland, I believe, where 

 this fish is found, and that is Loch Maben, Dumfrieshire. 

 It is said to have been imported here by Mary Queen 

 of Scots. 



The family of Coregonus are exceedingly puzzling. 



Mons. de la Blanchere, in his *' Dictionnaire des 

 Peches," writes : "After a special study made at the im- 

 perial establishment at Hunuique, where I have had 

 fishes of all ages under my eyes, I have arrived at this 

 conclusion : one of two things, either the genus Coregonus 



