NINTH DAY.] CHARR. 259 



ORN. These singular little birds, as I have 

 witnessed, walk under water. I have often watched 

 them running beneath the surface of the sides of 

 streams, and passing from stone to stone; not, 

 however, by means of air-pump feet, as I had once 

 conjectured, but by laying hold with their claws of 

 stones and the projecting parts of rocks. I conclude 

 they were then in the act of searching for, or feeding 

 upon, larvae. 



HAL. I suppose so, and I hope Ornither will 

 shoot one to give us an opportunity of examining the 

 contents of their stomachs, and of knowing with 

 certainty the nature of their food. 



PHYS. The charr * is a most beautiful and 

 excellent fish, and is, of course, a fish of prey. Is he 

 not an object of sport to the angler ? 



HAL. They generally haunt deep cool lakes, and 

 are seldom found at the surface till late in the 

 autumn. When they are at the surface, however, 

 they will take either fly or minnow. I have known 

 some caught in both these ways; and have myself 

 taken a charr, even in summer, in one of those 

 beautiful, small, deep lakes in the Upper Tyrol, near 

 Nassereit; but it was where a cool stream entered 

 from the mountain ; and the fish did not rise, but 

 swallowed the artificial fly under water. The charr is 



* Salmling of the Germans. 



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