NA TURAL HISTOR Y OF BRITISH SALMONID^. 1 5 1 



appears to differ from this view, as it is evident that if the fish 

 do not run up the rivers till November, they spawn later than 

 the salmon ; whereas Yarrell asserts on the contrary that ' they 

 ascend rivers for the purpose of spawning, in the same manner 

 as the salmon, hut earlier in the season ; and the fry are believed 

 to go down to the sea sooner than the fry of the salmon.' 

 This discrepancy is possibly to be explained by the different 

 habits of fish of different waters. 



Amongst the localities in which the bull trout is known to 

 exist may be mentioned some of the streams of Devonshire and 

 Cornwall, the Severn, the Usk, and several of the rivers of 

 South Wales (where it is called the Sewin), and according to 

 Dr. Heysham, in some of the Cumberland waters debouching 

 into the Solway Frith. In Ireland it occurs very generally on 

 either side of the northern portion of the island ; and Killala 

 Bay, Donaghadee, Florence Court, Beleek, Crawfordsburn, 

 Nanny Water, Ballyhalbert, and Dundrum are all referred to 

 by Thompson as places whence he had obtained specimens. 

 Sir William Jardine mentions the bull trout as being found in 

 the Annan, Dumfriesshire ; and Mr. Low recognised it as an 

 inhabitant of the Loch of Stenness, Orkney. The Liddel, 

 which runs through Roxburghshire, appears to have been once 

 renowned for this fish. Sir Walter Scott, in his notes to the 

 ' Lay of the Last Minstrel,' quotes an old rhyme celebrating the 

 places in Liddesdale remarkable for game : 



Billhope braes for bucks and racs, 



And Carit haugh for swine ; 

 And Tarras for the good Bull Trout, 



If he be ta'en in time. 



' The bucks and roes, as well as the old swine, are now extinct 

 but the good bull trout is still famous.' 



It has been asserted that the trout of the celebrated Coquet, 

 commonly spoken of as ' Coquet trout,' are, in fact, the bull 

 trout, but the ' Kelso Mail ' criticises the assertion as being wholly 

 inaccurate. ' The Coquet trout,' says the writer of the article, 



