JhE y/\E, FROM pOODRICH pASTLE. 



Ordrr IV. 

 PHVSOSTOMI. 



Family 



SALMONIDM. 



Sub-generic Group — Salvelini. 



:OLLAN. 



(Coregonus poUan.) 



Coregonus pollan. 



Thompson, Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1835, p. 77; Nat. Hist, of Ireland iv. p. 168; 

 Jenyns' Man. p. 432; Yarrell, ii. p. 156; Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. p. 292. 

 pi. 231; Cunther's Cat. vi. p. 194. 



OF the three British species of Coregonus, the Pollan of Ireland is the only one that may 

 be said to have any commercial value. This species was first described by Thompson 

 in the Proceedings 0/ the Zoological Society, 1835, and the description reprinted in his Natural 

 History 0/ Ireland. "The earliest notice of this species," writes Mr. Thompson, "that I have 

 seen is in Harris' History 0/ the County of Down, published in the year 1744, as well as in the 

 statistical surveys of the counties of Armagh and Antrim ; it has subsequently been introduced 

 as one of the fishes of Lough Neagh, under the name of Pollan ; but as may be expected 

 in works of this nature, little more than its mere existence is mentioned." Large quantities 

 of Pollan are caught during the season by the fishermen in the vicinity of Lough Neagh, 

 but they are not taken in such numbers as formerly, owing, it was told me when at Toome 



