346 THE ANGLER-NATUKALIST. 



the skin. Gill-covers with numeroiis black dots, extending backwards 

 above root of pectoral fin and being in immediate contact with it. 

 Vertebrae 61. 



The Welsh Charr or Torgoch spawns in November and 

 December, and is in season towards the end of the year *. 



The Windermere CharRj 



on which Dr. Giinther has founded his second species, is 

 an inhabitant of Windermere — or Winandermere as it used 

 to be called — and probably also of several others of the 

 English, Irish, and Scotch waters. Except at the spawn- 

 ing-season they seldom quit the deep bed f of the lake for 

 any of the rivers by which it is either supplied or drained ; 

 and then their partiality for a clear stream and a stony 

 bottom is very conspicuous. Windermere has two prin- 

 cipal feeders, the Rothay and the Brathay, the former 

 having a bed of sand, but the chaimel of the latter being 

 rocky and abrupt : these streams unite at the northern extre- 

 mity of the lake, and after a short course enter it together. 

 At about the end of October the Charr make their way in 

 shoals up both rivers ; but invariably, before spawning, those 



* As these fish inhabit situations in which they are almost inacces- 

 sible during by far the greater part of the year, it would appear that 

 they ought to be considered as in season during the few weeks in 

 which they can be caught. 



t The deepest parts of the lake, with a varying depth of from 50 

 to 80 yards, are their favourite habitats when not spawning ; when 

 spawning, they prefer from 2 to 2^ feet of water both in the river and 

 the lake. 



