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In Hampshire and Wiltshire—the Test, Wharf, and both 
the Avons; in Herefordshire—the Dove, Lug, Arrow, 
Wye, and Irwin; in Shropshire—the Teme and Clun, 
Corve and Onny ; in Staffordshire—the Hodder, Trent, 
Dove, and Wye; in Derbyshire—the Dove; in Merio- 
nethshire, the Dee; in Lancashire—the Ribble; in 
Yorkshire—the Derwent, Ure, Wharfe, and Whiske ; and 
in Cumberland, according to Heysham, the Esk and the 
Eden. 
The Wye, Dee, Lug, and Teme are the only Welsh 
rivers holding Grayling that I am acquainted with. 
Leintwardine on the Teme may be considered as the 
centre of the Grayling country ; and from Leintwardine 
to Ludlow is the best piece of Grayling water in the 
kingdom ; so far as my experience goes. 
The cause of the non-existence of Grayling in Irish 
or Scotch rivers is probably to be found in the “rock, 
stone, and scour,” which are their most common characte- 
ristics, whilst the Grayling appears to thrive best in 
rivers, the beds of which are composed partly or wholly 
of sandy gravel or loam ; and instead of dashing torrents 
and rapids in uninterrupted succession, affects waters in 
which shallows and “stickles” alternate with gentler 
currents and deep sluggish “lanes” or channels of 
stream. | 
The spawning months for Grayling are April and the 
early part of May, when they come up to the gravelly 
scours in shoals—in this respect resembling dace. The 
