112 PHYSOSTOML 



Mr. Harvie-Brown informs me of a chain of lochs in Scotland containing 

 charr. In one small, deep pool of crystal-clear water they are of a larger size 

 than those inhabiting the lochs lower in the valley. In a perfectly dead calm 

 they rise, sometimes freely, to a certain fly, but cease whenever a ripple disturbs 

 the surface. As many as six dozen have been taken by one rod in a single day. 

 One can see several feet down into this basin of pure water in a calm, and perceive 

 the fish floating upwards and sucking in the fly, as they seldom dash at it like a 

 trout. 



Charr, says Mr. Jackson, except for a few weeks in the year when it appears 

 to live on flies, preys on all small fish and captures them, even larger than would 

 be supposed possible by any one who has not taken (as I have) a perch nearly 

 two inches long out of a charr about nine inches in length. 



3. Salmo alpinus,* Plate CXVII, fig. 1. 



Umhla minor, Gesner, p. 1201 ; Willughby, p. 196, t. N. 7; Ray, p. 65. Salmo 

 Lemani lacus seu Umhla, Rondel, ii, p. 160 ; Willughby, p. 197, t. N. 5 ; Ray, 

 p. 66 (Gilt charre). Charr, Pennant, Brit. Zool. (Ed. 1776), hi, 305, pi. lx and 

 (Ed. 1812) hi, p. 407, pi. lxi. ; Low, Fauna Oread, p. 234. 



Salmo alpinus, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 117, no. 310, Syst. Nat. i, p. 510; Gmel. 

 Linn. p. 1370; Bonn. Enc. Ich. p. 162, pi. lxvii ; f. 272; Nilss. Skand. Faun. 

 Fisk. p. 426 ; Jardine, Brit. Ass. vol. iv, p. 614 : Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, 

 p. 8 and Catal. vi, p. 127 ; Collett, Gorges Fiske, p. 160. 



Salmo umhla, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 511 ; Bloch, t. ci ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1371 ; 

 Bonn. Enc. Ich. p. 164; Jurine, Poiss. Lac Leman, pi. v; Agassiz, Poiss. d'eau 

 douce, pi. ix, x and xi ; Cuv. and Val. xxi, p. 233 ; Parnell, Mem. Wern. Soc. vii, 

 p. 308 and Fish. Firth of Forth, p. 148 ; White, Catal. Brit. Fish. p. 78 ; 

 Thompson, Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 160 ; Heckel and Kner, Siisswasserf. p. 285 ; 

 Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 39 and Catal. vi, p. 125 ; Moreau, Poiss. France, 

 iii, p. 530, f. 207. 



Salmo salvelinus, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 511 ; Bloch, t. xcix ; Gmel. Linn. p. 1370 ; 

 Bonnaterre, Ency. Ich. p. 162, pi. lxvii, f . 273 ; Cuv. and Yal. xxi, p. 246 ; 

 Tarrell, Brit. Fish. (ed. 3), i, p. 241 ; Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 38, 1863, 

 p. 7 and Catal. vi, p. 126; Blanchard, Poiss. France, p. 444, f. 115. 



Alpine charr, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, iv, p. 272, pi. cexxvi. 



Salvelinus alpinus, Malm, Bohuslaus Fauna, p. 540. 



Variety a. — Salmo perisii, Plate CXIX, fig. 2. 



Torgoch, Willughby, p. 196. Umhla minor, Gesner ; Farrington, Phil. Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. 1755, p. 210. Torgoch, Pennant, Brit. Zool. 1. c. Red charre or Torgoch, 

 Ray, 1. c. 



Salmo salvelinus, Donovan, Brit. Fish, v, pi. cxii ; Turton, p. 104 ; Jenyns, 

 Brit. Vert. p. 428 ; Tarrell, Brit. Fish. (ed. 1), ii, p. 70, c. fig. (ed. 2), ii, p. 121. 



Salmo umhla, Jenyns, p. 427. 



Salmo camhricus, Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 49, pi. vi (not Donovan). 



Salmo perisii, Giinther, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1865, xv, p. 75, and Catal. 

 vi, p. 133 ; Houghton, British Freshwater Fishes, p. 141, c. fig. 



Torgoch, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, iv, p. 264, pi. cexxiii. 



D. 12-13(V) I 0, P. 12, V. 9, A. ll-12( 3 g*)> C. 21, L.l. 125-135, Vert. 61, Ccec. 

 pyl. 36. 



This form has the teeth of moderate size and the edges of the 

 anterior nostril forming a small flap. Gill covers overlapping the root of the 



* Space will only permit a selection of references being made. 



