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fcrox), brown or yellow trout (S. fario), and char {S. 

 salvcliuHs). Happily there is a total absence from these 

 waters of the voracious pike, with the single exception 

 of Loch Migdale, a small loch on the Skibo estate. Nor 

 is even the ubiquitous perch to be found within the range 

 of the county, so far as I am aware. The whole of the 

 SahnojiidcB referred to are migratory. vS. salar and 5". 

 triitta are, in every natural condition of their existence, 

 recognized as migrants, and so too, but over a more 

 restricted range, is S. fcrox ; but in regard to our more 

 familiar friend, 6". fario, he departs to a large extent from 

 the customs of his congeners, in consequence of the 

 necessities imposed upon him, whereby he too has his 

 season of migration. The fresh-water loch is both to 

 him and S.ferox precisely what the sea is to the more 

 extended migrations of ^. salar and 6". trutta, namely, 

 their common pasture ground, which they occupy until 

 at each recurring period they are led by their instincts 

 to ascend the rivers and streams, for the purpose of 

 procreation. 



The journey by railway to Lairg occupies about 

 eighteen hours. Lairg is an important station to those who 

 are desirous of proceeding further into the county. There 

 is good hotel accommodation there ; but, in the height 

 of the tourist season it is often unable to cope with 

 the great stream of pleasure-seekers which constantly 

 passes towards the westerly and northerly parts of the 

 county. By next year the hotel accommodation will be 

 considerably augmented by the addition of the con- 

 tiguous building, hitherto occupied as a shooting lodge 



