70 SALMONID.E, 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGll. SA LMONIDJE. 





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THE WELSH CHARR. 



Salmo salvelinus, Salvelian Charr, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 112. 

 ,, ,, Torgoch, Flem. Brit. An. p. 183, sp. 43. 



The Charr of Wales was described and figured by Mr. 

 Donovan, in his Natural History of British Fishes, under 

 the name of Salvelian Charr, Salmo salvelinns ; and he ap- 

 pears to have considered it distinct from the Charr of the 

 Northern lakes of England, which is also described and 

 figured under the name of S. alpinus. Pennant included 

 his notice of the Welsh Charr under that of the Northern 

 Charr ; but examination of a specimen of each fish side by 

 side will convince the observer that they are perfectly dis- 

 tinct. The Northern Charr is an elegantly-shaped slender- 

 bodied fish, with fins of small comparative size. The Welsh 

 Charr is a short fish, considerably deeper for its length, with 

 very large fins ; it has also in its form much of the character 

 of an adult Parr of the Tweed, and carries for a long time 

 the same sort of duskv lateral markings, but is immediately 



