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variably require an enormous amount of food to enable 

 them to grow and flourish, and should never be intro- 

 duced into water which will not afford the necessary 

 supply. 



CHARE AND POLLEN (Coregonus.)* Both these fish 

 are extremely local. The first named are found in large 

 lakes, the deepest part of which they frequent. Like 

 trout, they vary in different waters, chiefly however in 

 color, which is often most brilliant when they have been 

 freshly taken, the fiery red breast being then marvellously 

 vivid. The torgock, or Welsh charr, is perhaps the most 

 conspicuously colored. It is found in Llanberis and other 

 lakes in the north of Wales. It is smaller than those of 

 Windermere and other northern lakes, its average length 

 being thirteen to fifteen inches. The charr is strictly a 

 northern fish, and flourishes much better in lakes fed by 

 underground springs at some elevation than in shallow 

 and low-lying waters. The lakes and lochs chiefly noted 

 for these fish in England, Ireland, and Scotland, are 

 Windermere, Ennerdale, Buttermere, Wast- Water, in the 

 north of England; Lough Enniskillin, Lough Eske, 

 Lough Dan, Lough Melvin, Lough Killin, and Corr in 

 Ireland; Lochs Grannoch, Roy, and Awe, in Scotland; 

 and Lake Helier in Hoy, in the Orkneys. From their 

 habit of seeking the seclusion of the very deepest water 

 during the greater part of the year, they are seldom taken 

 by the sportsman, although bold risers at the fly. Occa- 

 sionally they are excessively shy, and are not to be ap- 

 proached within a considerable distance when surface 

 feeding. The contents of their stomachs when taken 

 generally consist of aquatic and aerial insects, and the 



*The trout is now relegated to the salvelinus or cbarr species of the 

 salmonoids, to which the Rangely Lake trout, the California mountain 

 trout and our common speckled brook trout belong. The charrs, how- 

 ever, differ greatly in coloration from the American varieties, but few 

 having spots, which, when present, are of a dull reddish orange color. 



