410 CHARR SALMON. Class IV. 



flesh assuming a higher color than the other 

 when dressed. 



Varieties. On the closest examination, we could not dis- 

 cover any specific differences in these speci- 

 mens, therefore must describe them as the same 

 fish, subject only to a slight variation in their 

 form, hereafter to be noted. But there is in 

 another respect an essential difference, we mean 

 in their ceconomy, which is in all beings invari- 

 able ; the particulars we shall deliver in the very 

 words of our obliging informant. 



Spawning The Umbla minor, or case charr, spawns 



of the Case . . 



Charr. about Michaelmas, and chiefly in the river Bra- 

 thy, which uniting with another called the Row- 

 thay, about a quarter of a mile above the lake, 

 they both fall into it together. The Brathy 

 has a black rocky bottom ; the bottom of the 

 Rowthay is a bright sand, and into this the 

 charr are never observed to enter. Some of 

 them however spawn in the lake, but always in 

 such parts of it which are stony, and resemble 

 the channel of the Brathy. They are supposed 

 to be in the highest perfection about May, and 

 continue so all the summer, yet are rarely 

 caught after April. When they are spawning 

 in the river they will take a bait, but at no other 

 time, being commonly taken, as well as the 



