274 BRITISH FRESH-WATER FISHES 
Wastwater, Ullswater, Gaitswater, and Seathwaite Tarn. 
Attempts to establish them in other lakes have failed. For 
instance, a number of years ago char were turned into Potter 
Fell Tarn, about four miles from Kendal, an excellent trout 
lake, apparently very suitable for this mountain-loving fish, 
They seem to have migrated in search of more suitable 
quarters, for, twelve months after the experiment, one was 
caught with the fly weighing half a pound in the river Kent. 
All these English char are of the variety known as Willughby’s 
char (Dr. Ginther’s Sa/velinus Willughbit). The back is very 
dark green, almost black, passing into sea-green on the sides, 
with silvery reflections, and spotted with red; the belly is 
deeply stained with carmine and orange. The ventral fins 
are red, with a white anterior margin ; the anal fin is reddish 
also, with a similar white margin; the pectoral fins are 
greenish, with a white anterior margin, and stained with red 
on the posterior margin. The first dorsal and caudal fins 
are blackish. 
In Scotland char have been reported from Loch Leven, 
where they are now extinct; Loch Insch, in Strathspey ; in 
the Lochs Rannoch, Assyut, Altnacalgach, Tay, Dochart, and 
many others, especially in Sutherlandshire, also from the 
Hebrides and Orkney Islands. In the southern uplands of 
Scotland, where there are an immense number of deep lochs, 
they are only found in Loch Grannoch and Loch Dungeon, 
in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, and in Loch Doon, in 
Ayrshire. 
The distribution of char in this district, one with which I 
am very familiar, offers a most perplexing problem. I can 
suggest no cause for their presence in these three sheets of 
water only, and their absence from many other lakes in the 
neighbourhood, to all appearance equally suitable to their 
requirements. The char of Loch Grannoch and Loch Dun- 
geon resemble the Windermere fish in appearance, and rarely 
take the fly ; those of Loch Doon are of a different type, and 
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