P.IVER ^CENE AT j^ONT- Y-p YFFING. 



Order IV. 

 PHFSOSTOMI. 



Family 



SALMONIDM. 



Sub-generic Group — Salvelini. 



ORGOCH, OR 



^^ELSH 



i'HARR. 



fSalmo pcrisii. ) 



Torgock Wallis, Westmorlandis, The Red 



Charre laciis Winandermere, 

 Salmo saivclinus. 

 The Charr, 

 Salmo cambricus, 

 Salmo perisii, 



Torgoch of Llanberris, 



WiLLUGHBY, Hist. Pisc. p. 1 96. 



Donovan, Brit. Fish. vol. v. pi. 112; Jenyns' Man. p. 42 S 

 Yarrell, (3rd. ed.) i. p. 241, fig. p. 245. 

 GiJNTHER, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 49, pi. 6. 

 GiJNTHER, An. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1865, xv. p. 75; 



Cat. vi. 133. 

 Couch, Fish. Brit. Isls. iv. p. 264, pi. 223. 



rpHE Welsh word Torgoch, from tor, "a belly," and cock, "red," not unaptly describes 

 -L this fish, which, as we have seen, has been described by Willughby (born 1635) i" his 

 Historia Piscium. That naturalist thought that this species of Charr is identical with the 

 Charr of Windermere; but Giinther has demonstrated that the two species are distinct. 

 Donovan, who was acquainted with this fish, says it differs from the Charr of Wynandermere, 

 '"and can be no other than the true Salmo salvelinus,''' a continental species, from which, however, 



