166 FISHING GOSSIP. 
THE SILURUS GLANIS. 
In the autumn of 1852 I started with a fellow- 
collegian from the University of Tiibingen on an 
excursion into the “Upper Country,” as the level 
tract is called which lies between the upper Rhine 
and the upper Danube. It is intersected by the 
watershed of these rivers, some of the streams falling - 
into the Lake of Constance, and abounds with 
smaller and larger pools, much frequented by aquatic 
‘and grallatorial birds, which are rarely met with in 
the more densely-peopled districts of the “ Lower. 
Country.” Our intention was to make ourselves ac- 
quainted with the living representatives of the species, 
the zoological characters of which we had diligently 
studied during the course of dry lectures from stuffed 
or prepared examples, and to shoot and collect where- 
ever we should find opportunity. . 
The pools vary much in size, most of them not 
being larger than a mill-pond. We first visited the 
largest of them, a round lake of about a mile in 
diameter, called the Feder-see, literally lake of feathers, 
from the quantity of birds frequenting it. As it is 
one of the head-quarters of the fish of which I am 
