Pn the )VyE. 



Order IV. 

 PHFSOSTOMI. 



Family 

 SALMONID^. 



Sub-generic Group — Salvelini. 



OCH i^ILLIN V^HARR. 



[Salmo killincnsu. 



Salmo killinensis. 



Gdnihek, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 698, pi. 11; Cat. vi. p. 130. 



rriHIS is a very well characterized species of Charr, first noticed by Thompson in his work 



JL 



on the Natural History of Ireland (iv. p. 164), and described by Dr. Giinther, who has 



also given a good figure of this fish in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, as 

 quoted above. Thompson writes thus of this fish, "About fifteen miles from Loch Corr is Loch 

 Killin, situated in the pastoral vale of Loch Stratherrick. Three specimens of Charr have 

 thence been brought me. They are remarkably different from the Loch Corr example, are of 

 a clumsy form, have very large fins like the Welsh fish, and are very dull in colour; of a 

 blackish leaden hue throughout the greater part of the sides, the lower portion of which is of 

 a dull yellow, no red appearing anywhere. So different indeed is this fish from the Charr 

 of the neighbouring localities, that it is believed by the people resident about Loch Killin to 

 be a species peculiar to their lake, and hence bears another name — 'Haddy' being strangely 



u 



