CHAR 



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This resemblance to the Killin Char is interesting ; 

 the two lakes are about i 5 miles distant from each 

 other, and separated by high mountains, but both 

 are south of the Glen more chain of lochs, into which 

 the streams which issue from them flow, that from 

 Loch Killin into Loch Ness, and the River Roy into 

 Loch Lochy. Loch Roy is described by Mr. Pennell 

 as a small mountain tarn situated directly below an 

 almost perpendicular cliff; he caught the Char with a 

 fly in the month of July during a violent snowstorm. 



Fig. II.— Heads of male ( 6 ) and female ( ? ) of Large-mouthed Char from 

 Ben Hope. 



The Large-mouthed Char {Salvelinus maxil- 

 laris)^ of a small isolated loch under Ben Hope in 

 Sutherlandshire, is a very distinct species, to which 

 I have given the name ^. maxillaris^ on account of 

 the notable length of the maxillary, which extends 

 back far beyond the eye in adult males ; the head is 

 longer and the interorbital region narrower than in 

 the Windermere Char. As will be seen from the 

 accompanying figures, the sexual differences are well 

 marked. 



The colour of the back and sides, with the dorsal 

 and caudal fins, dark plumbeous ; belly, brilliant 



