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lent sport. They are caught also in Connington 

 Mere, in Lancashire. Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v. 



Thecharr that are found in Ireland, in Loughs 

 Neagh, and Esk, and Lough Egish, in Ferma- 

 nagh, and Wicklow lakes, are about twelve inches 

 long. This fish appears to be in many of the 

 northern lochs, but is only taken in the spawning 

 season, when coming to the mouth of the rivulet. 

 They reach a considerable size ; they are a night- 

 feeding fish, and feed near the bottom. 



William Jar dine. 



THE PARR. 



Among the British salmonidse, there is no fish 

 the habits of which are so regular, or the colours 

 and markings so constant, as those of this small 

 fish. It frequents the clearest streams, delights 

 in the shallower fords or heads of streams having 

 a fine gravelly bottom, and hangs there in shoals 

 in constant activity, night and day. It inhabits 

 those rivers that have an uninterrupted inter- 

 course with the sea. It takes any bait, at any 

 time, with the greatest freedom, and hundreds 

 may be caught when no trout will rise, though 

 abundant among them. In the markings they 

 are so distinct as to be at once separated from 

 the trout. Sir W. Jardine on the Parr, Edin- 

 burgh New Philosophical Journal. 



