166 FISHING GOSSIP. 



THE SILUEUS GLANIS. 



IN the autumn of 1852 I started with a fellow- 

 collegian from he University of Tubingen on an 

 excursion into the "Upper Country," as the level 

 tract is called which lies between the upper Ehine 

 and the upper Danube. It is intersected by the 

 watershed of these rivers, some of the streams falling 

 into the Lake of Constance, and abounds with 

 smaller and larger pools, much frequented by aquatic 

 and grallatorial birds, which are rarely met with in 

 the more densely-peopled districts of the " Lower 

 Country." Our intention was to make ourselves ac- 

 quainted with the living representatives of the species, 

 the zoological characters of which we had diligently 

 studied during the course of dry lectures from stuffed 

 or prepared examples, and to shoot and collect where- 

 ever we should find opportunity. 



The pools vary much in size, most of them not 

 being larger than a mill-pond. We first visited the 

 largest of them, a round lake of about a mile in 

 diameter, called the Feder-see, literally lake of feathers, 

 from the quantity of birds frequenting it. As it is 

 one of the head-quarters of the fish of which I am 



