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Its gill-covers were silvery, marked with a dark spot ; belly 

 and sides, up to the lateral line of the same, silvery colour ; 

 back and sides, down to the lateral line, dusky, inclining to 

 green ; sides above the lateral line marked with dusky spots ; 

 along the lateral line, and both a little above and a little below 

 it, several dull obscure red spots. The dorsal fin has twelve 

 rays, marked with several dusky spots; the pectoral fin has 

 twelve rays of a dusky olive colour ; the ventral fin eight rays 

 of a silvery white ; and the anal fin ten rays of the same colour. 

 When the scales were carefully taken oif with a knife, the 

 obscure red spots became of a fine vermilion, and were nine- 

 teen in number ; and ten obscure oval bars of a dusky bluish 

 colour appeared, which crossed the lateral line. In a young 

 fry which has not acquired the scales, these bars are very 

 distinct. 



The accompanying cut and description are both borrowed 

 from Yarrel's " British Fishes ;" the latter as quoted from 

 Dr. Heysham's catalogue. 



To render these facts yet more certain, in the autumn of 

 1835, Thomas Upton, Esq., of Ingmire Hall, near Kendal, 

 began to enlarge a natural lake on his property, and in the 

 spring of 1836, some Pinks from the Lune, a Salmon river in 

 that vicinity, were put into it. 



This lake, which is called Lilymere, has no communication 

 with any other water, by which the fish once introduced can 

 get out, or any fry from other waters get in. The Pinks, when 

 put in, were certainly not above two or three ounces each in 

 weight. Sixteen months afterwards, a friend of Mr. Upton's 

 being on a visit to him, caught with a red palmer-fly two 



