60 SALMOXID.E. 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYG1I. SALMONTDM. 



THE GREAT GREY TROUT. 



THE GREAT LAKE TROUT. 



Salmoferox, JARDINE and SET. BY. 



,, lacustris, Lake Trout, NERKENHOUT'S Syn. edit. 1795, vol. i. p. 79, sp. 3. 



THE GREAT LAKE TROUT of Loch Awe, to which 

 attention has lately been drawn by the various notices that 

 have appeared in print of the fish, as well as of the beauties 

 of the locality, was shortly noticed by Pennant, in the 

 editions of the British Zoology, as a native of Ullswater 

 Lake in Cumberland, and of Lough Neagh in Ireland, and 

 was considered to be identical with the Great Trout of the 

 Lake of Geneva. Berkenhout includes this fish in his 

 Synopsis of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land, as quoted above. Dr. Heysham records it in his 

 Catalogue of Cumberland Animals as the Ullswater Trout 

 and Grey Trout, some specimens of which were said to 

 weigh between fifty and sixty pounds ; and the Rev. Mr. 



