46 Sweden. 



to a large size, from ten to eighteen pounds, are tolerably good for 

 the table, and appear, unlike the rest of this genus, to prefer animal 

 to vegetable food. 



The miller's thumb (Coitus Golio, L.) is common in the Wenern, 

 and I have seen specimens of the horned bull-head (C. quadricornis, 

 L.), taken in the Lake Wettern. 



I believe the lampern (Petromyzon fluviatilis , L.) is to be met 

 with in the Wenern, although I never saw a specimen ; but at 

 Fryksdalen, a few Swedish miles north, I found Planer's lampern 

 (P. Planeri, Bl.) as well as the pride (P. Iranchialis, L.), common 

 in every small stream. 



Of the sticklebacks (Gasterostei) we had the common three- 

 spined in all its varieties, as well as the ten-spined (G. pungitius, L.). 

 I have still my doubt whether our common stickleback is exactly 

 identical with the common British stickleback ; but, for fear of 

 seeking a mare's nest, I shall give no opinion. 



I never, to my knowledge, met with the common loach (Colitis 

 larlatula, L.) anywhere in the Swedish waters ; but the spined 

 loach (C. tcenia, L.) is very common in many parts of the Wenern. 



The little minnow (Cyprinus Phoxinus, L.) completes my list. 

 Strange to say, I never myself took this fish in the Wenern itself, 

 although I am told that it is met with there ; but a few miles north, 

 in every water where the common trout is taken, I have met with 

 them in shoals, and certainly the largest I ever saw in my life. 



The above list, which, from my own experience, I believe to be 

 strictly correct as far as regards the Lake Wenern, will also give a 

 very fair idea of the ichthyology of the middle of Sweden. It will, 

 I trust, prove as interesting to the angler as to the naturalist 3 giving 

 him some idea as to what sport he is likely to obtain in these waters. 

 For salmon-fishing, doubtless the Norwegian streams beat any waters 

 we have in Sweden by long chalks ; bat salmon-fishing in Norway 

 has lately become such a fashion, that if, as we are told, all the good 

 waters are rented by rich Englishmen, a poor wanderer like myself 

 would have no more chance of wetting a line in the Namsen than 

 of fishing the best salmon streams of Scotland. But of this, more 



