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clumsy form, have very large fins like the Welsh 

 fish, and are very dull in colour of a blackish 

 leaden hue throughout the greater part of the sides, 

 the lower portion of which is of a dull yellow, no 

 red appearing anywhere. So different, indeed, is 

 this fish from the Char of the neighbouring localities, 

 that it is believed by the people resident about 

 Loch Killin to be a species peculiar to this lake, 

 and hence bears another name ' Haddy ' being, 

 strangely enough, the one bestowed upon it. This 

 fish is only taken when spawning, but then in great 

 quantities, either with nets, or a number of fish- 

 hooks tied together, with their points directed 

 different ways. These, unbaited, are drawn through 

 the water where the fish are congregated in such 

 numbers that they are brought up impaled on the 

 hooks. The largest of my specimens is 1 6 inches 

 in length, and others of similar size were brought to 

 my friend at the same time, when about a ' cart- 

 load ' of them was taken. The flesh of some was 

 white and soft. They contained ova the size of peas. 

 At this very time the Char from the neighbouring 

 Loch Corr were in high condition. This is one out 

 of numerous instances which might be adduced 

 respecting the different period of spawning in con- 

 tiguous localities." 



The Char of Loch Roy in Inverness-shire is 

 known only from a single specimen 6 inches long, 

 captured by Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell in 1862, and 

 presented by him to the British Museum. It is in 

 every way similar to the Killin Char, except that 

 the head is perhaps a little smaller and the scales 

 are larger, numbering only 1 60, instead of 1 80 to 

 220 in a longitudinal series. 



