40 Szveden, 



ascend the streams to the north of tlie Wenern for the purpose of 

 spawnhig. The common trout {S. Fario, L.) also runs to a fair 

 size in the Wenern and many of its tributary streams. The average 

 price of the Wenern trout is three-pence per pound, when the 

 season is well on. 



I never saw or heard of a charr (5. alpinus, L.) being taken in 

 the Wenern 5 but the Wettern's charr {S. Salveliniis, Bloch) — at 

 least both Mr. Lloyd and Nils:5on consider this fish to be identical 

 with the Sabno Salveliftiis figured and described by Bloch — run to 

 a large size. I have myself seen them five pounds weight 5 but, 

 according to Nilsson, they are taken in the Wettern up to ten or 

 twelve pounds weight. I used to fancy that this was nothing more 

 than a large variety of the common charr which we took up in 

 some of the forest lakes in Wermerland, to my knowledge as heavy 

 as five pounds ; but now I think that is a true species. It is con- 

 sidered so by the S\^Tdish ichthyologists, and also by Dr. Giinther in 

 his notes on the '' charr," who, in alluding to a large specimen from 

 this very Lake Wettern, says, " This species is not represented by 

 any of the British charrs that I have examined." One thing I 

 can, however, say, that if Bloch's diagnosis — ''the first ray of the 

 anal and ventral fins white" — is to be considered as a characteristic 

 and specific mark of distinction of the S. Salreli?ius, we have both 

 species in the same lake, for on JVLarch 3rd, 1862, I made a charr. 

 fishing trip to this very lake. We fished in holes cut in the ice. 

 Baits, a white grub taken out of the dead fir bark. We had some 

 capital sport, although on this occasion two pounds was our heaviest 

 fish. But we caught several specimens with the front ray, or some- 

 times rays of both anal and ventral fins, white, and these I took foi 

 diseased fish. 



The smelt (5. Epeiianus, L.) remain in the Wenern throughout 

 the year, but are never seen except just when the ice breaks up in 

 the spring 3 and tlien immense shoals come up from the deeps of 

 the lake to spawn on the shallows. Directly, however, tlie spawn- 

 ing is over, they return again to deep water, and we see them no 

 more till the next spring. We have two varieties : the smaller one. 



