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deepest and most inaccessible parts of the lakes, and the 

 only chance for taking them (beyond an occasional speci- 

 men when fly-fishing for Trout) is to trail a spinning- 

 minnow with a very long line, leaded so as to sink nearly 

 to the bottom. 



The following are amongst the lakes known to contain 

 Charr : 



1 . A Charr is found in Loch Grannoch, Kirkcudbright- 

 shire, which makes its appearance only during ten days, and 

 never before about the 13th of October. The sexes are 

 stated to be distinct from each other in colour and in the 

 size of the head and of the fins ; also in the number of the 

 vertebrse, the male having 60, the female 62-63 ?. Num- 

 ber of eggs found in a specimen 482. Charr are also 

 found in Loch Ennick, Rothiemurchusforrest, and in Lochs 

 Clare, and, I believe, in the sister loch, Coulin. 



2. Of other localities in Scotland, Loch Inch and Loch 

 Corr are mentioned. They appear to be inhabited by a 

 species identical with, or similar to, the Charr of Winder- 

 mere at all events by one different from the "Haddy" of 

 Loch Killin, in Inverness-shire. The latter is very inter- 

 esting, inasmuch as it seems to be closely allied to the 

 Fresh-water Herring of Lough Melvin. It is only caught 

 when spawning, about the 26th of September. 



3. Lough Melvin, producing the Fresh- water Herring, 

 which appears to be confined to that locality. 



4. Lough Dan, co. Wicklow, Ireland, inhabited by a 

 Charr exhibiting some of the characters both of the 



