158 MALACOPTERYGII. 



The cocca in the above were accurately reckoned, so that in the six 

 specimens they vary in number from 34 to 49. 



Oct. 26th, 1838 I received from Lord Cole a female specimen of this 



fish (apparently from 10 to 12 lbs. weight) taken in L. Erne. Lord C. 

 remarked in a note relative to this specimen sent to me, that a similar 

 fish of 12 lbs. was taken about the same time. My specimen was 2 feet 

 9^ inches long ; chiefly beneath the lateral line Avere many XXX like 

 markings ; above it they were generally round, as all were on opercula. 

 In the market to-day were several Buddaghs from L. Neagh, male and 

 female, of great size, some 14 lbs. weight. On looking over them, I saw that 

 the males had nearly all the spots round, but the females had all, at least 

 a few, and some many, indeed the half, of the spots either single crosses 

 X, or a combination of them. Some of these had spawned, others had 

 the spawn just ready for exclusion, as it was in the L. Erne specimen. 

 The tail of this individual was obscurely lunate when unstretched, but 

 when fully expanded was convex. I am satisfied that there has been much 

 confusion on this point by authors ; we see that even in the same indi- 

 vidual it is reversed according to the way we view it ; whether in repose 

 (^. e. of death) or expansion. The stomach of this fish was empty. The 

 coeca 45 in number. The ova weighed 21 ounces. To approximate the 

 number of ova in this weight, or to see what a fish of about 1 1 lbs. total 

 weight would produce, I weighed one ounce of the ova and reckoned their 

 number, Avhich was about 220. This number to 21 ounces (and the ova 

 were all similar in size) would be 4620 ova t7i foto. 



I could not but be struck with the disparity in several points of view 

 between this fish and a char, from Lochgrannard in Scotland (»S^. Umbla, 

 Linn.), which I examined on the 20th instant in a similar way, and the 

 ova, just in the same way, ready for exclusion. 



Thus a char of 7^ inches long, which weighed altogether 2:^ oz., and its 

 ova singly half an oz. and 1^ drachms — here the ova were two lines in 

 diameter, and in total number but 482, or ^ less than that of its congener 

 the S.ferox. Vide Jounud, Oct. Wi, 1837. 



August, 1839. — Mr. Jarvey of Glasgow, who has fished much in Loch 

 Lomond, states that there is a trout there, called the poivan-eatei', which 

 he agrees with me is the S.ferox. 



Swift, in " a dialogue in Hibernian style between A and B," makes A 

 inquire — " What kind of man is your neighbour Squire Dolt ? — B. Why, 

 a mere Buddagh. He sometimes coshers with me ; and once a month I 

 take a pipe with him, and we shot it about for an horn- together." — Scotfs 

 Su-ift, 2nd ed. 1824, vol. vii. p. 156. 



On inquiring from Dr. M'Donnell the meaning of Buddacjh, he replied 

 it meant " a big, fat fellow." 



In writing a history of S. ferox (see Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v. p. 318), 

 Mr. Robert M'Garry tells me that " Bucldagh " from ten pounds upwards 

 are taken in Lough Neagh with night-lines, baited with a pollan or perch ; 

 caddis-worms are successfully used in the capture of all species of trout 

 but the Gillaroo, which neither he nor any of his friends, who were the 

 regular fishermen of Lough Neagh, ever took in this way, though they 

 have occasionally taken it with the fly. 



Measm-ements of a Lough Neagh Sahno ferox kindly made for me by 

 Professor Stevelly, Sept. 27th, 1848. He saw it at or near Dungannon. 



