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SALMONID.E. 



ABDOMINAL. 



MALACOPTERYGJI. 



SALMONID^. 



THE POLLAN. 



Coregonus Pullan, The Pullaii, Thompson, Proceedings Zool. Soc. for 1835, 



p. 77 ; and Magazine of Zool. and 13ot. 

 vol.i. p. 247. 



A SHORT notice of tlie Pollan of Ireland, as made known 

 by Mr. Thompson of Belfast in 1885, was inserted in the 

 History of British Fishes, vol. ii. p. 88 ; and that gentleman 

 having most zealously followed up his zoological investiga- 

 tions in that country, I am now enabled to add from his re- 

 searches various further particulars. 



" The earliest notice of the species that I have seen," says 

 Mr. Thompson, " is in Harris's History of the County of 

 Down, published in the year IT^i, where, 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." 



" The habits of this fish do not, with the exception of its 

 having been in some instances taken with the artificial fly, 



