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LAKE TROUT. 



In Ireland, Buddagh — the Grey. 



Srihno ferox, Jardine. Jenyns ; Manual, p. 425. 



" " Yahrell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 110. 



This fish was little known to any except anglers until of 

 late; and appears to have been first distinguished as a separate 

 species by Sir William Jardine; but when we have heard of a 

 fresh-water Trout as exceeding fifteen or twenty pounds in 

 weight, we may venture to conjecture that the examjjle referred 

 to was the great Lake Trout. It is strictly a fish of the north, 

 and is confined to the larger lakes or pieces of water, as well in 

 Shetland, as the more distant parts of Scotland. Nilsson mentions 

 it among the fishes of Sweden; and through the kindness of 

 the Earl of Enniskillen I have obtained examples from the 

 north of Ireland, where it is even common in places in which 

 there is sufficient space for it to rove and feed; for it is to 

 be observed of this species, as of several others of this family, 

 that in a more limited space they are shorn of their full pro- 

 portion of bulk and vigour. It is thus that some examples 

 which, through the kindness of J. Morrison, Esq., M.P., I 

 obtained from INIalham Tarn, in Yorkshire, the size Avas much 

 less than those from Ireland. They are found also in the 

 Llyn y Bugail, or Shepherds' Pool, in Montgomeryshire; and 

 it is to be remarked that in both these last-mentioned instances 

 the pool or lake is on high ground, as if the degree of elevation 

 was required to be an equivalent for the more northern situation 

 of the Scottish waters. 



This is a formidable fish, as well from its size, in which it 

 is equal to the Salmon, and much superior to the general run 

 of that fish, as from the formidable armature of its mouth, in 



