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sact., vol. xiv. pp. 9 and 10.), with regard to the Salmo 

 Levenensis or Ccecifer, a species of trout common in Loch 

 Leven, by Richard Parnell, Esq., MD., F.R.S.E., &c. 



" This species of trout, which is well known to many 

 persons as a delicious article of food, is considered by most 

 naturalists, as a variety of the salmo fario, or common 

 fresh-water trout, the redness of its flesh depending on 

 the nature of its food. I consider it however not only 

 as distinct from the salmo fario, but as one of the best 

 denned and most constant in its characters of all the 

 species hitherto described. It is at once distinguished 

 from the common fresh- water trout, by the number of 

 its coecal appendages, which vary from seventy to 

 eighty; whereas, in the salmo fario, they are never 

 more than forty-five or forty-six in number. Its tail 

 is crescent-shaped at all ages, and the body has never 

 the vestige of a red spot." 



The QUEICHS, North and South, are the principal 

 feeders of Loch Leven and the streams to which its 

 trout resort, in the spawning season. The North 

 Queich, being the larger of the two, was the one pre- 

 ferred for this purpose, but it is now, owing to the 

 removal of the shelter which its banks and channel 

 afforded, little frequented. After a large flood in 

 September and October, many hundreds of breeding 

 fish were at one time killed here during night with 

 the spear, by parties of poachers; and at the dam 

 dykes belonging to the small mills, high up the stream, 

 whole sackfuls have sometimes been taken out, on a 

 single occasion. 



