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upward, and overreaching the upper ; nostrils midway between the 

 eyeball and end of the snout, the foremost round, open, surrounded 

 by a membrane which posteriorly is developed into a small flap, which 

 does not exist in the charr of Windermere, and in this species almost 

 entirely covers the smaller, oblong, posterior nostril. By this character 

 alone the torgoch may be distinguished from the last-named species and 

 the charr of Lake Melvin. The mystache scarcely extends beyond the 

 hindmost border of the eye, and has from nineteen to twenty-one teeth, 

 six or seven in each intermaxillary, seventeen to each mandible, seven on 

 the vomer (where they form two sides of a triangle), fifteen on each 

 palatine bone, and five pairs on the tongue. Origin of the dorsal fin a 

 little nearer the snout than to the root of the tail, with thirteen or four- 

 teen rays, the first very small, the sixth longest. Anal fin with eleven 

 or twelve rays, the first exactly in the middle, between the roots of the 

 tail and of the outer vental ray, the first ray very short. Pectoral fin 

 with twelve or thirteen rays, its base overlapped by the gill-cover, and 

 extending three-fourths of the distance to the origin of the ventrals ; 

 ventral fins with nine rays ; tail concave. The scales thin and small ; 

 colour of the back dark sea green, lighter on the sides, a bright red 

 below, the sides often with numerous reddish orange-coloured spots ; 

 pectorals greenish, passing into reddish posteriorly, the upper margin 

 white ; ventrals and anal red, with white anterior margins ; dorsal and 

 caudal blackish, with broad lighter margins ; cheeks with numerous 

 black dots." To this account of the colour of this beautiful fish we add 

 from Mr. Hansard that the hues are splendid beyond all example among 

 the fishes of this country. Nothing can exceed the fervid aspect of its 

 colours when first taken. The scarlet of the body may be said to emulate 

 the glowing redness of the fiery element ; the upper part of the head and 

 back deep purplish blue, blending into silvery near the lateral line, below 

 which the sides are tinged with yellow, passing into orange, and then 

 into fine scarlet towards the belly ; the back and sides spotted beauti- 

 fully with fine red, the flesh within a deep red. Number of the vertebrae, 

 sixty-one 



The following is a description of Gray's charr : Head and body com- 

 pressed, slightly elevated, the greatest depth below the origin of the dorsal 

 fin, upper profile of the head elevated above the border of the orbit, the 

 diameter of which is one-fifth of the length of the head, shorter than the 

 snout ; inter-orbital space convex, with a prominent ridge along the 

 middle, and with a pair or series of pores. Snout slightly compressed, sub- 

 conical ; length of the jaws equal. Nostrils midway between the end of 

 the snout and the border of the eye, the hindmost wider and round, the 

 anterior a very narrow vertical slit, both separated by a narrow cutaneous 



