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AIWUMIXAL 

 MALACOFTEliVGIl. 



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THE POWAN. 



Coregonus La Cepedei, The Powan, Parnf.i.i, Annals of Nat. 



Hist, vol.i. p. 161. 

 ,, clupeoides, The Herring-like Coregonus, LACtrtuE, Hist. Nat. du 



Poiss. 8vo edit. torn. x. 

 p. 386. 



Dr. Parnell, whose Ichthyological investigations in 

 Scotland have not been confined to tlic " Fislies of the 

 Forth,"'' only, has described in the first volume of the Annals 

 of Natural History a .si)ecies of Coreirouus, to which he has 

 attached the name of Laccpedci, this species having been fir.st 

 noticed, or perhaps distinguished, by this celebrated French 

 naturalist. 'J'his fish is found in Loch Lomond, one of tlic 

 largest and most picturcstpie lakes in the west of Scotland. 

 It is not unlikely that some of the species of Congoni found 

 in the northern lakes of England, Scotland, and L'cland, may 

 exist in the lakes of Scandinavia, M. Nilsson, Professor of 

 Natural History at Lund, describing in his Prodromus Ich- 

 thyologidi Scandinavicfc no less than eight species as belong- 

 ing to that country ; but from a certain general agreement in 



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