ALPINE CIIARR. ,43 



gradually passing; into the bright red of the lower parts ; sides with numerous reddish orange- 

 coloured dots. Pectoral greenish, passing into reddish posteriorly, the upper margin being 

 white ; ventral and anal red, with white anterior margin ; dorsal and caudal blackish, with 

 broad lighter margins. Cheeks and operculum with numerous black dots." 

 The number of the rays in the fins are 



Dorsal 13. 

 Pectoral 12. 

 Ventral g. 

 Anal 12. 



Order IV. Family 



PHFSOSTOMI. SALMOXIDJE. 



Sub-genen'c group — Sai.velini . 



gLPINE %HARPv. 



{Sahno alpiiiiis.) 



Sal?>io alphius, LiN., Faun. Suec. p. 117, No. 310; Syst. Nat. i. p. 510; Nilss., Skand. 



Faun. Fisk. p. 426; Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 8; Cat. vi. p. 127. 

 Sahno mnbla, Parnell, Fish. Firth of Forth, Mem. Wern. Soc, vii. p. 308. 



Alpine Charr, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. p. 272, pi, 226. 



I KNOW nothing whatever of this species beyond having seen specimens in the British 

 Museum. It is an inhabitant of the Scandinavian peninsula and some waters of Scotland. 

 The British Museum Scotch specimens are from Sutherlandshire and Invernesshire, and from 

 Lake Helier in Hoy, Orkneys. Parnell says it is found In many of the lakes of England, 

 Wales, and Scotland, but in all probability he is confusing this species with others. Couch 

 has given a figure and description, as he says, "from undoubted examples of this fish, which 

 he obtained through the kindness of Robert Embleton, Esq., from Loch Grannoch, where or 

 In which neighbourhood alone it has hitherto been found in the United Kingdom." But this 

 Is clearly an erroneous statement. Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell mentions his having taken with 

 a fly during a violent snowstorm in July, 1862, from Loch Roy, Invernesshire, a small 

 specimen of a very beautiful Charr, which he thought would prove to be the young of the 

 Northern Charr. This Is doubtless the specimen now in the British Museum, presented by 

 Mr. Pennell, who thus proved himself correct in his opinion as to the species. The Scotch 

 specimens are said by Dr. Gunther to differ from those of Lapland in some respects. They 

 are considerably smaller in size at the period of its first maturity; the largest British Museum 

 specimen Is a mature male eleven inches long; it has a more elongate body than the males 

 from Lapland. "The operculum is as high as long; the pectoral fin terminates at a con- 

 siderable distance from the vertical from the origin of the dorsal, equals the length of the 



