GWINIAD. 29 



THE GWiNIAD inhabits the same lakes as 

 the Alpine Trout, and is to be found in some of 

 the northern rivers ; it resembles the common 

 Trout in shape, but is thicker in proportion: 

 its length is from ten to twelve inches; the 

 head is small and very taper in front, the upper 

 lip extending considerably beyond the lower, so 

 that the mouth, which is small, appears placed 

 beneath ; the general colour of it is a silvery 

 grey, with a dusky tinge on the upper parts, 

 and the base of each scale marked by a dusky 

 speck ; the fins are pale brown, the tail forked, 

 and the scales large. In rivers, at the time of 

 spawning, which is in December, it forces its 

 way up the most violent streams, generally ad- 

 vancing in two ranges, and forming in front an 

 acute angle, the whole being conducted by a 

 single fish. The flesh of the Gwiniad has an 

 insipid taste, and must be eaten soon after it is 

 caught. This fish is to be angled for with the 

 same baits, and with the same tackle, as direc- 

 ted for Trout or Greyling. 



There is in many rivers, especially in such as 

 empty themselves into the sea, a little Trout, 

 called the Skegger, which will readily take any 

 small fly, and will bite at the worm or maggot 

 as fast and as freely as Minnows ; it never ex- 

 ceeds the size of a Herring. 



