THE CHARS. 



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• ttwT? °Pu hUned f b ° Ut tWenty Specimens ° f ^re males of 



he Welsh Char or Torgoch from Llanberris, with four youn* 



pecimens from the lake Coe-y.ged.ul, and formerly /„ tn f 



possession of Mr. Yarrell; from which Mr. Jenyns derived his 



description of the fish he has represented as his L L ll 



Io these are to be added two examples, one of which is of 



:» ri: f ™ *■* ** - — s ;: 



w a f a r bl f e a l he o r J 0mP f ariSOn : it r the EHtish SpedeS ' Dr - G ^her 

 Z «n \ ° b f m i from the Lake of Constance the "Eothel " 



fa Cha" 1m J" "h" "' ^ ^ ° f G ""* fo « °^™ 



But before entering into the question of the British species 



fib I ? V Seemed dCSirable t0 ascerta - -hat were th 

 fishes to be understood by the Linn.an names of Salmo um Ma 

 S. salveUnns, and S. alpinus, and which are the designaTon S 

 have been assigned to the really British species g For th 

 purpose the original descriptions are found too genen, nd 



the"tr£m ut i the ^?? is settied b ^ an -Sirs 



the names themselves, and by the situations from which the 

 typical specimens were procured A. , 



"S.Ivelin," ftom , .peciL/'capt/d L £"ES "' ' he 

 ~ intended f„ r «, Germail ^'^^ ^T» ""» 



Linnaeus. ihe & MOT 5/« of Linnams is founded ™ ri, ■ .u 

 species of SW OT0 in Artedi , s ° Unded ° n Jie ninth 



Synonymy, from Eonde,etius, wff£ri£l £ 77 1 ? 



or «»4fa f or cw e c / ieM& . of Gen va and Ne^! H^ CW 



never assumes the red colour of T / /■ NeUchatel > but * 



vol. iv. Ur ° f & sal ^hnus, or of the Chars 



