300 ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



British Fishes" is a pool, a miniature lake, where the water can 

 be little more in motion more impregnated with air than in 

 the lake itself, rarely an hour unruffled by the wind. In Hawes 

 Water, in which the charr, the trout, and the shelley are all 

 abundant it being one of the few Westmoreland lakes in which 

 poaching is prevented the charr, I have been informed, breeds 

 only in the lake : the keeper, in the course of six years' observa- 

 tion, never knew or heard of an instance of a single charr having 

 been taken in any of the tributary streams the breeding-streams 

 of the trouts. A figure of the charr of this lake is given in page 

 260. It is, probably, merely a variety of the northern charr, 

 owing its peculiarities to local circumstances. It is proportion- 

 ally a much larger fish than the northern charr, or that of Win- 

 dermere, Buttermere, and Coniston Water. It differs, too, in 

 rising freely at the fly. In one day, I was told, two anglers in 

 Hawes Water took nine dozen, without taking a single trout. 

 And, when in season, it is less fat, and has, I think, a more deli- 

 cate flavour. The charr of Buttermere, and of its neighbouring 

 lake, Crummock Water, I have also been assured, never enters 

 the tributary rivers, and breeds only in the lakes ; and it, 

 whether of Buttermere or Crummock Water, closely resembles 

 the charr of Windermere. Yet it has its peculiarities. Though 

 similar in general form and colouring, it has a thicker stomach 

 than the charr of Windermere ; has (a specimen that I examined) 

 a rose-coloured air-bladder, and, when of full size, is said never 

 to be taken with a fly or any bait, and even when only half- 

 grown, and less, is but rarely taken with the fly. I have ob- 

 tained similar information relative to the breeding-places of the 

 charr in other two lakes of the same district, viz., Coniston 

 Water and Ulles Water ; * and hence leading to the conclusion 

 that still water rather than running is most appropriate to it, and 

 that its ever resorting to a river, as in the instance of the sluggish 

 part of the Brathay, is to be held as an exception. J. D. 



(On the Young Trout on quitting the Egg, page 71.) 



It is stated by the author, that the young trout, after burst- 

 ing the egg, when it subsists on the supply of food by nature 



* Since mines have been opened in the vicinity of these lakes, the charr 

 in the former has become scarce ; and it is no longer found in the latter. 



