72 
MB. E. DAT ON" THE LOCH-LEVEN TEOTJT. 
taken in the summer .... The Grey-trout or Bill-trout, some 
of them as kig as a salmond ; greyish skinned and red fished, 
a foot long, taken all the year over. Cendue or Camdue in 
Irish, Blackhead, having a black spot on the top of its head, is 
fat, big as a Dunbar herring, red fished, much esteemed.” 
Pennant, in 1769, went to Loch Leven, and observed : — “ The 
fish of this lake are pike, small perch, fine eels, and most excel- 
lent trouts, the best and the reddest I ever saw ; the largest 
about 6 lb. in weight ” (Journ. 4th ed. p. 69). In his ‘British 
Zoology,’ 1776, he did not refer to any distinct species existing 
in Loch Leven ; but after remarking on the large trouts of Lough 
Neagh in Irelaud, locally termed Buddaghs, he continued, “ Trouts 
(probably of the same species) are also taken in Hulse-water, a 
lake in Cumberland, of a much superior size to those of Lough 
Neagh. These are supposed to be the same with the trout of 
the lake of Geneva, a fish I have eaten more than once, and 
think but a very indifferent one ” (iv. p. 289). 
The Reverend A. Smith, ‘ Statistical Account of Kinross,’ 
1793, remarked that “ In Loch Leven are all the different species 
of hill, burn, and muir trout that are to be met with in Scot- 
land, evidently appearing from the diversity of manner in which 
they are spotted ; yet all three different kinds, after being two 
years in the loch and arriving at | lb. or 1 lb. iu weight, are red 
in the flesh, as all the trout of every kind in the loch are, except, 
perhaps, those newly brought down by the floods, or such as are 
sickly. The Silver-grey trout, with about four or five spots on 
the middle of each side, is apparently the original native of the 
loch, and in many respects the finest fish of the whole. The fry 
of all kinds are white in the flesh till they come to the size of a 
herring, about the beginning of the third year Those 
called bull-trout are believed to be the old ones. In spring, 
1791, a large one was caught that weighed 10 lb.” 
Dr. Walker, in his posthumous ‘Essays on Natural History 
and Rural Economy,’ 1812, observed of the trout in Loch Leven: — 
“ The first most frequent is called at the place Grey Trout , and is 
a fish not distinctly described by naturalists ; it is found usually 
from 1 lb. to 2 lb. in weight, at times considerably larger. This 
is supposed to be Salmo levenensis, N. The second, called by 
the inhabitants Bull-trout, Salmo taurinus , N., supposed to be a 
distinct species ; but there is reason to suppose this is the male 
of the above. These two are generally known in Edinburgh as 
