7^ ENNIS NA SHIA. 



trout is, however, by far the best eating of 

 all the lake breed. 



The common trout is here known by the 

 name of the brown trout, a name which is 

 probably a corruption from burn or brook 

 trout, though it must be confessed it does 

 look brown when lying side by side with the 

 yellow gillaroo or the crimson char. 



Besides these there is of course the mys- 

 terious par, which frequents every salmon 

 river and lake in the world, and which 

 always has been a complete puzzle to natu- 

 ralists, who have never been able satisfac- 

 torily to make out its connexion with the 

 salmon. Its local name in these waters is 

 jenkin. 



There are plenty of perch for those who 

 like to catch them ; and, indeed, there sel- 

 dom happens a day's cross-line fishing with- 

 out a plentiful take of these beautiful little 

 fish, from their rising at flies that were 

 never meant for them. 



One fish there is for which no bait has 

 ever yet been discovered : it is called in the 

 country the freshwater herring, and is pro- 

 bably closely allied to the gwinead, if, indeed, 

 it is not a variety of that very identical fish. 



