GWYNIAD. 85 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. SALMONID&. 



THE GWYNIAD. 



SCHELLY. Cumberland. POWAN. Perthshire. 



Coregonus fera ? CUVIEH, Regne An. t. ii. p. 307. 

 ,, ,, ? NILSSON, Prod. p. 16, sp. 4. 



,, ,, ? JURINE, pi. 7. 



Salmo lavaretus, Gwyniad, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 419, pi. 73. 

 Coregonus ,, ,, FLEM. Brit An. p. 182, sp. 50. 



Generic Characters. Body in appearance herring-like ; with two dorsal fins, 

 the first higher than long, the second adipose ; the scales large ; the mouth 

 small, sometimes with minute teeth on the jaws or tongue, or both. 



THE species of the genus Coregonus are numerous in 

 Europe, and several of them are so similar to each other, that, 

 without the power of comparing those of this country with 

 foreign specimens, an appropriation of synonymes is at least 

 doubtful. Some authors have even considered the Vendisse 

 of Lochmaben as the same with the Powan of Perthshire, 

 the Schelly of Cumberland, the Gwyniad of Wales, and the 

 Pollan of Ireland : but it will be found that this is not the 

 case ; and, from recent observation, there is now reason to 



