192 THE ANGLEE-NATUEALIST. 



To the Hon. Mrs. Bellamy Gordon, of Kenmure Castle, 

 my best acknowledgements are due for an interesting 

 account, written on the spot, of this gigantic Pike* and its 

 captor, as well as for a photograph of the head of the fish 

 as it now appears, with its proportions. These latter would 

 be scarcely intelligible without the assistance of the photo- 

 graph ; but, to give a general idea of the size of the fish, 

 I may quote one measurement — that across the back of 

 the head, the width of which was nine inches. 



I have lately received from Dr. Genzik, of Lintz, who 

 has kindly furnished me with much valuable information 

 concerning the Continental Pike, some facts in regard to 

 the size attained by these fish in Bavaria, the Tyrol, &c., 

 which may probably be new to many of my readers. He 

 assures me that, in the fish-markets of Vienna, Lintz, and 

 Munich, Pike are not unfrequently exposed for sale of 80 

 and 90 lbs. weight and upwards, — that the fishermen on the 

 Danube, near Strudel and Wirbel, have legends of Pike 15 

 and 20 feet long, which break through all their nets, — and 

 that at Traunkirchen, on the Gmiinden Water, there are 

 still living some fishermen who declare that about twenty 

 years ago, when dragging the lake, they enclosed a Pike 

 longer than either of their boats, and that they began, as 

 they expressed it, "to say their prayers, thinking the 



* This account was written by the Rev. George Murray of Bal- 

 maclellan. In the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the head of a Pilfe is 

 stated to have been preserved, the owner of which weighed 70 lbs. ; 

 but the Curator of the Museum informs me that this head is not now 

 in the collection. 



