GREAT LAKE TROUT. 13 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. SALMON ID^. 



THE GREAT LAKE TROUT, 



OR GREAT GREY TROUT. 



Salmoferox, Jardine and Selby, and British Fishes, vol. ii. p. 60. 



Since the publication of the History of British Fishes, in 

 which the existence of the Great Lake Trout in Lough 

 Neagh, was recorded as ascertained by Mr. Thompson of 

 Belfast, that gentleman, following up his zoological re- 

 searches, has learned that this fish exists in Lough Corrib, 

 in the county of Galway, and also in Lough Erne, in the 

 county of Fermanagh, thus proving it, to use Mr. Thomp- 

 son''s words, to be an inhabitant of the three largest lakes in 

 Ireland, and it will probably yet be found in most of the 

 lakes of any considerable extent in that country. Mr. 

 Thompson has very kindly supplied me with a young fish of 

 this species from which our representation was taken, and 

 which, difiPering from specimens of large size in having the 

 spots more numerous, may be an acceptable addition. As 

 mentioned in the former volume, this Lake Trout, when 

 small, is in Ireland called a Dolachan ; when large a 

 Buddagh^ and they are usually caught on night lines baited 

 with a perch or a pollan. The mode of taking this fish in 



