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THE GREAT LAKE TROUT. 159 



" Girth, between eye and mouth 



back of gills 



middle, just in front of dorsal fin 



setting on of tail . 



Zenr/th, extreme from hook to tail 



head from hook to back of gill 



tip of nose to front of dorsal fin . 



front of dorsal to front of caudal 



• tail 



mouth .... 



"Weight 23 lbs. It was lank, though the flesh was firm, and had evidently 

 milted." 



Sa/mo ferox. Feb. lOfh, 1838. — Mr. Adams remarked to me, that in 

 October it is an extraordinary sight to see the large Buddaghs on the 

 spawning beds in the river Maine ; from the first bridge for some distance 

 up the river he has seen them so close together with the tail and fins 

 above the surface of the water when it was low, that one could a])parently 

 walk across dry upon the fish ; the number is extraordinary. He thinks 

 all the large fishes keep to this part of the river contiguous to the mouth, 

 but he has heard of the smaller ones ascending to spawn as high up as 

 Broughshane. On inquiring how he knew they were not salmon, he 

 replied that their season was later than the Buddaghs. 



Salmo ferox. August loth, 1845. — I saw in Belfast market the finest 

 male fish of this species, /. e. of the greatest depth relatively to length, I 

 ever saw : it was from Lough Neagh, was in length 27 inches, girth 161 

 inches, weight 16 lbs. 



Swift, vol. xix. p. 144, old ed. of 20 vols. Lady Howth to Dr. Swift, 

 August 6th, 1736.— 



" Since I began this there came in a trout ; it was so large we had it uieighed; 

 it was a yard and four inches long, 23 inches round ; his jaw-bone 8 inches long ; 

 and he weighed 35^ lbs. My Lord and I stood by to see it measured." 



" SAvift does not give the locality ; somewhere in Connaught evidently, 

 and the address given for him to WTite is Turlevaghan near Tuam." E. G. 



Salmo ferox. Bcdlochmorrie, Sept. 1843. — Mr. Wason has seen taken 

 of large size in Loch Lomond, and states that it is found in Bala lake in 

 Wales : he describes it admirably, so that I feel certain of his correctness, 

 and to my surprise mentioned that it is there called Buddagh ; he had 

 never heard of the same fish, or indeed any species, being called Buddagh 

 in Ireland. 



Salmo ferox. — I saAV two of these with Surgeon Wilde, from Lough 

 Allen.— Dublin, Nov. 1839. 



Salmo ferox. August 'Mst, 1848. — I saw two males from Lough Neagh 

 in Belfast market, one of which was 23 lbs. and the other 28 lbs. weight. 

 The latter was no longer than a fish of less than half the weight, but as 

 it lay on the board was about one foot in depth. 



LouGii Neagii Trout. 



May, 1851.— I think I have before noted that Mr. B. Meenan has seen 

 trout from this lake 33 lbs. weight, and that Sir William Vcrner told him 

 he caught one there of 36 lbs. 



June 29th. — I saw a male Salmo ferox, about 6 lbs. weight, with Mr. 

 Wilde, from Lough ]\Iask. It was considered a Gillaroo by him, and its 



