300 ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



British Fishes" — is a pool, a miniature lake, where the water can 

 be little more in motion — more impregnated with air — than in 

 the lake itself, rarely an hour unruffled by the wind. In Hawes 

 Water, in which the charr, the trout, and the shelley are all 

 abundant — it being one of the few Westmoreland lakes in which 

 poaching is prevented — the charr, I have been informed, breeds 

 only in the lake : the keeper, in the course of six years' observa- 

 tion, never knew or heard of an instance of a single charr having 

 been taken in any of the tributary streams — the breeding-streams 

 of the trouts. A figure of the charr of this lake is given in page 

 260. It is, probably, merely a variety of the northern charr, 

 owing its peculiarities to local circumstances. It is proportion- 

 ally a much larger fish than the northern charr, or that of Win- 

 dermere, Buttermere, and Coniston Water. It differs, too, in 

 rising freely at the fly. In one day, I was told, two anglers in 

 Hawes Water took nine dozen, without taking a single trout. 

 A.nd, when in season, it is less fat, and has, I think, a more deli- 

 cate flavour. The charr of Buttermere, and of its neighbouring 

 lake, Crummock Water, I have also been assured, never enters 

 the tributary rivers, and breeds only in the lakes ; and it, 

 whether of Buttermere or Crummock Water, closely resembles 

 the charr of Windennere. Yet it has its peculiarities. Though 

 similar in general form and colouring, it has a thicker stomach 

 than the charr of Windennere ; has (a specimen that I examined) 

 a rose-coloured air-bladder, and, when of full size, is said never 

 to be taken with a fly or any bait, and even when only half- 

 grown, and less, is but rarely taken with the fly. I have ob- 

 tained similar information relative to the breeding-places of the 

 charr in other two lakes of the same district, viz., Coniston 

 Water and Ulles Water ; * and hence leading to the conclusion 

 that still water rather than running is most appropriate to it, and 

 that its ever resorting to a river, as in the instance of the sluggish 

 part of the Brathay, is to be held as an exception. — J. D. 



{On the Young Trout on quitting the Egg, page 71.) 



It is stated by the author, that the young trout, after burst- 

 ing the egg, when it subsists on the supply of food by nature 



* Since mines have been opened in the vicinity of these lakes, the charr 

 in the former has become scarce ; and it is no longer found in the latter. 



