COMMON TROUT, 



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favourite water-spaniel that was condemned to suffer death 

 for killing all the Carp in his master's ponds, but was 

 reprieved at the desire of Mr. Popham, who took charge 

 of him, in the belief that so shy and so swift a fish as a 

 Trout was not to be caught by a dog. However, in this 

 he was mistaken, for the dog soon convinced him that his 

 largest Trout were not a match for him/'' Mr. Stoddart also, 

 in his Scottish Angling, page 119, has recorded the propen- 

 sities of a fish-catching dog. 



I am indebted to William Thompson, Esq. of Belfast, 

 for a very fine specimen of the Gillaroo Trout of Lough 

 Neagh, measuring twenty-two inches in length, from which 

 fish the representation on this page was taken. The 

 internal surface of the stomach presented an indurated cu- 

 ticle, but the parietes were not thicker than those of other 

 Trout ; the cavity was filled with some dozens of the Palu- 

 dina impura of Lamarck. The fin-rays and vertebra were 



D. 12 : P. 14 : V. 9 : A. 11. : C. 19. Vertebra 56. 



So little difference appeared to exist between this and 

 English specimens of S. fario, as to induce the belief that 

 the Gillaroo is only a variety of the Common Trout, as 

 stated by Pennant. 



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