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and were in excellent condition. Both were females, with 

 full ovaries of eggs about the size of No. 5 shot, orange 

 in colour, but not excessively numerous. These fish were 

 distinctly darker than those seen in spring, and relatively 

 more elongated in form. Their stomachs contained a 

 considerable quantity of more or less digested food, amongst 

 which the only objects recognisable were fragments of some 

 small insects, or their larvae. The stomach of the specimen 

 photographed contained about a teaspoonful of partly 

 comminuted matter, apparently composed of cyclops, and 

 a couple of quite recently swallowed caddis larvae (Trichopter<e\ 

 case and all ; showing that the fish had been feeding up 

 to the time of its death, and that, too, pretty close in shore, 

 as well as that a fairly substantial bait is sometimes taken. 

 The others examined contained nothing that could be 

 identified with the magnifying power available. The 

 mouth of a lo-inch Gwyniad may be made to gape open 

 to the extent of three-quarters of an inch, and in that 

 position the point of the mandible appears to extend 

 beyond that of the premaxilla ; when the mouth is closed, 

 however, the under jaw fits just inside the upper. The 

 teeth are all very small. 



Gwyniad are unknown to enter any of the rivers, either 

 those running into the lake, or the Dee which flows from it. 

 There is a tradition of one having been found dead near 

 Llandrillo, five or six miles below the lake, but in all 

 likelihood it may have been carried down the Dee in that 

 state. I picked up one myself a short distance below the 

 outlet, but had no reason to suppose that it had left the 

 lake alive : the remains of others were found stranded on 

 the beach, close to the bridge that spans the outlet. 



" The sun behind the Dduallt sinks, 



And gilds the distant view - 9 

 All golden, like the draught he drinks, 

 The Gleisiad leaps in Lliw : 1 



1 Gleisiad, "Blue pate " = Sea trout. Pen-y-llwyn, "Master of the 

 coppice " = Missel thrush. Tresglen = Song thrush. Cochiar, " Red game " 

 = Grouse. Mwyalchen = Blackbird. Gwyniad, " White pate." Penhwyad, 

 " Duck-headed " = Pike. 



