Mr. W. Thompson’s Notes on British Char. 447 
been noticed:—In Camden’s ‘ Britannia’ it is remarked— 
“ Lough Esk, near Townavilly [co. Donegal], yields the Char 
in great abundance: a most delicate fish, generally about 9 
inches long.” (Gough’s ed. vol. iii. p. 644.) I have seen a 
specimen from this locality in Mr. Yarrell’s collection ; it was 
supplied to him by Lord Cole, and is noticed in the Supple- 
ment to his‘ British Fishes’ (p. 27) as S. Umbla. Smith, in his 
‘ History of Waterford, p. 208, observes—“ In these moun- 
tains [Cummeragh] are four considerable loughs, two of 
which are called by the Irish Cummeloughs, and the other 
two Stilloges, the largest of which contains about five or six 
acres. In these loughs are several kinds of trout ; and in the 
former is a species of fish called Charrs, about 2 feet long, the 
male gray-, the female yellow-bellied; when boiled the flesh 
of these Charrs is as red and curdy as asalmon, and eats more 
delicious than any trout. It is remarkable that this kind of 
fish is often found in such lakes situated in mountainous 
places, as we learn from Dr. Robinson’s Natural History of 
Westmoreland and Cumberland.” In the British Zoology of 
Pennant (vol. iii. p. 409, ed. 1812) it is mentioned on the au- 
thority of “ Dr. Vyse, an eminent physician and botanist at 
Limerick, that the Charr is found in the lake of Inchigeelagh, 
in the county of Cork, and in one or two other small lakes in 
this neighbourhood.” In Dubourdieu’s History of the 
county of Antrim (vol. i. p.119) there is a communication 
from Mr. Templeton on the Char of Lough Neagh, illustrated 
by a figure’; it is here stated to be the same as the Char of 
Windermere, as distinguished from the 8S. Salvelinus, Don. 
Mr. Templeton here informs us that this fish is taken in L. 
Neagh “from the end of September to the end of November 
in nets along with Pollans [Coregonus Pollan|. They always 
keep the deep water, except in warm weather, when they are 
sometimes found in the shallow. The best time for taking 
them is in nights that are calm, clear, and a little frosty; the 
capture of the Pollans begins to fail sooner than that of the 
Whiting,”—the name by which the Char is known at this lake. 
It is likewise remarked, that “the Whiting is generally about 
12 inches long, though I have seen one of 15.” Again, in his 
Catalogue of ‘Irish Vertebrate Animals’ (Mag. Nat. Hist. 
vol. i. new series), Mr. Templeton observes,—“ In a lake of the 
county of Donegal, near Dunfanaghy, I observed some boys 
catching small Char with lines and hooks baited with com- 
mon earthworms. * * * In L. EKaghish+, in the county Mo- 
naghan, I have known them caught agreeing exactly in their 
+ Incorrectly printed “ Esk” in the Magazine. 
