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conclusion that the Gillaroo is only a variety of that 

 species. 



Another singular variety though perhaps it ought more 

 correctly to be called deformity is seen amongst the Trout 

 of Lochdow, near Pitmain, Inverness-shire, to which it has 

 been hitherto supposed to be confined. In 1862, however, 

 the author caught such a Trout with the fly in a moun- 

 tain-tarn of the same county, called Roy, or Koi, from 

 which the picturesque little salmon-river so named takes its 

 source. The elevation of the loch above the sea-level is 

 considerable, and its appearance striking, as it is situated 

 directly below an almost perpendicular cliff, at the base 

 of which it forms a sort of lynn or caldron. In some parts 

 it is very shallow, but in others the water is black, and ap- 

 parently of immense depth , whilst what seems to be the 

 edge of the declivity between the two is bordered, far out 

 in the pool, by a semicircular sweep of bulrushes cut as 

 sharply as if with a knife. 



DEFORMED-HEADED TROUT OF LOCH EOT. 



This fish, of which the engraving accurately represents 

 the form of the head, is now in the British Museum. It 

 weighed about 5 ounces, and took the fly during a violent 



