Class IV. 



GRAYLING. 



flender than the others, as being without fpawn. 

 The back of a gloffy duiky blue: the fides filvery, 

 mixed with blue, fpotted with pale red : the fides 

 of the belly were of a pale red, the bottom white. 



The tails of each bifurcated. 



The charrs we have feen, brought from Snow- 

 don lakes, were rather fmaller than thofe of Weft- 

 morland, their colors paler. The fuppofed males 

 very much refemble the Gelt Charr\ but that is 

 not a] certain diftinftion of fex, for the Rev. Mr. 

 Farrington *, has told me that the rimer men do not 

 make that diftinction. 



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®u{AaX\o$ ^Elian. de an. lib. 



xiv. C. 2 2. 



Umbra Aufonii Mofella. 90. 

 Thymalus, Thymus. Sal-uian. 



81. Belon> 276. 

 Thymus, Umbra fluviatilis. 

 Rondel, fiwv. 187, 172. Gef- 

 * ner pifc. 132. 

 A Grayling, or Umber. Wil. 



Icth. 187. Rail fyn. pifc. 

 62. Coregonus maxilla fu- 

 periore longiore, pinna dor- 

 fiofficulorum viginti trium. 

 Arted. fynon. 20. 

 Salmo Thymallus. Lin. fyjl. 

 512. Gronwv. 'Zjooph. No. 

 375. Afch. Kram. 390. 



150. Gr 



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THE grayling haunts clear and rapid dreams, 

 and particularly fuch that flow through 

 mountanous countries. It is found in the rivers 

 of Derby/hire \ in fome of thofe of the north ; in 



* Who favored the Royal Society with a paper on the Welch 

 charr. Vide Phil, Tranf. 1755. 



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