96 FAUNA OF NORTH WALES 



meaning Tardeimin, the old name of Lljii Quellyn. Speaking 

 of this lake, Pennant says {Tovr, II., 415) the Char in it are 

 " taken in nets in the first winter months." He also mentions 

 that Rev. I\Ir. Farrington contributed a paper on Welsh Char 

 to the Royal Society {Phil. Trans. 1755) Bingley erroneously 

 states {Tour, I., 186) that the Char in Llanberis Lakes had all 

 been destroyed bj'- the copper-works when he was there in 1798. 

 The lake called Bodlyn in the Fauna is the middle one of three 

 Gors-y-Geddol lakes. Char used to be caught there in great 

 numbers with a maggot from the middle to the end of October : 

 in 1894 the Barmouth CoriDoration converted it into a reservoir 

 for the towai water-supply, and raised the water-level. After 

 this the Char seemed to disappear, but in 1907 ]\Ir. R. P. Alia way 

 found them as numerous as ever. Mr. Allawaj' does not know 

 of any lake near Trawsfynj^dd where there are Char, and he 

 thinks there are none in Llyn-y-Bi, Rev. W. S. Symonds, in 

 Records of the Rocks, p. 57, states that there are Char in Llyn 

 Bochlwyd below Glyder Fawr. He probably meant Llyn 

 Cwm Ffynnon on the opposite side of the Glyder. On p. 82 

 he gives Lljai-y-Gader and Llyn-y-cae as habitats (both lakes 

 on Cader Idris), but no other observer confirms this, and he 

 was probably mistaken. 



117.— GRAYLING. Thymallus vexillifer. Agass. 



Plentiful in the Upper Dee, and occurs in the Severn, Vyrnwy, Tanat, 

 and Camlad. 



118. — GWYNIAD. Coregonus clupeoides. Lacep. 



Found in Bala Lake and a neighbouring pool into which it was introduced. 



Mr. G. Bolam states that the Gwyniad spawns in March. 

 Bingley in his Tour (II., 194) gives a lengthy account of this 

 fish in Bala Lake, but it contains no original observations, 

 being mainly copied from Pennant. 



119.— SMELT, OR SPARLING. Osmerus eperlanus. L. 

 Occurs in spring in many estuaries, especially that of the Conway River. 



120. — ANCHOVY, Engraulis enckrasicohis. L. 



Occasional on the north coast, but never in any numbers. 



Pennant obtained it near his residence at Downing in 1769. 

 Dr. J. Travis Jenkins tells me that the Anchovy spawns off 



