Mr. W. Thompson’s Notes on British Char. 443 
are found to be just ready for exclusion: a small portion of 
both has been indeed shed by a few individuals. A specimen 
74 inches in length weighs with the ova 27 0z., the ova sepa- 
rately } an oz. and 14 drachm. On accurately reckoning 
these ova, which are 2 lines or 2th of an inch in diameter, 
they amount in number to 482—this I should say, or 500 for 
round numbers, is the average produce of the species in this 
lake. The example was selected out of seven females as of 
average size, and the ova as of average quantity. The air- 
bladder is in both sexes of a beautiful reddish lilac colour, 
like the inside of some species of North American Unio, as 
U. pyramidatus, Lea, &c. The stomach and intestines of the 
greater number (13 were cut up) were empty, but a few con- 
tained the remains of food which could not be satisfactorily 
determined—it consisted either of minute aquatic insects or 
entomostracous crustacea, more probably the latter. When 
boiled, the flesh of the male was of a rich salmon colour, that 
of the female a very little paler in hue. 
Noy. 16, 1838.—To the kind attention of Viscount Cole I 
am indebted for twelve Char from Lough Melvin (partly in 
the county Fermanagh), sent immediately after capture. In 
the accompanying note, dated Florence Court, 15th Novem- 
ber, His Lordship remarked—“ I can procure you any num- 
ber you wish, as the people are now taking them in cart-loads. 
‘The flesh of such as I send is white and soft, and different 
from what that of Char is in any other lough.” 
_ ‘These specimens, which are in a fresh state and excellent 
condition for examination, are all from 10 to 12 inches in length, 
and differ greatly from those of Loch Grannoch, in presenting 
little or no beauty of appearance. ‘The upper half of the body, 
in both sexes, is of a dull blackish lead colour, unrelieved by 
spotting in any but three or four individuals, which exhibit 
a considerable number of minute spots which are merely of a 
paler shade than the surrounding parts, and consequently in- 
conspicuous; for more than half the space between the late- 
ral line and ventral profile they are dull lead colour, without 
any spots except in the individuals just noticed; the lower 
portion of the sides varies in individuals from a pale to a rich 
salmon colour, which latter is seen in only one or two ex- 
amples. ‘The dorsal fins are of a uniform gray and transpa- 
rent ; in some, when closely examined, there appear roundish 
spots of a paler colour ; pectorals dusky gray, darker towards 
the tips, except at the lower portion, which, partaking of the 
colour of the part of the body in which it rests, is of a pale 
pinkish white ; ventrals in the brighter-coloured individuals 
with a white marginal line ; in the duller-coloured examples 
