Class IV. 



G R A Y L I N G. 



3^1 



{lender than the others, as being without fpawn. 

 The back of a glofiy dufky blue: the fides filvery, 

 mixed with blue, fpotted with pale red : the fides 

 of the belly were of a pale red, the bottom white. 



The tails of each bifurcated. 



The charrs we have feen, brought from Snovo- 

 don lakes, w'ere rather fmaller than thofe of IVefi- 

 mcrlandj their colors paler. The fuppofed males 

 very much refemble the Gelt Charr ; but that is 

 not a' certain diftinclion of fex, for the Rev. Mr. 

 Farrhigton *, has told me that the fiihermen do not 

 make that diftin6lion. 



SufA,x\>,og ^lian. de an. lib, 



xiv. r. 22. 

 Umbra Aiifonii Mofella. go. 

 Thymalus, Thymus. Saluian. 



8i. Belon, 276. 

 Thymus, Umbra fluviatilis. 



RcndeLfiu^j. 187, 172. Gef- 



ner pifc. 132. 

 A Grayling, or Umber. Wil, 



Icth. 187. Rail Jyn. pifc. 

 62. Coregonus maxilla fu- 

 periore longiore, pinna dor- 

 ii officulorum viginti trium. 

 Arted. fynon. 20. 

 Salmo Thymallus. Lin. fyji. 

 512. Grono^. 'Zjooph. No, 

 375. Afch. Kram, 390. 



150. Grayl- 

 ing. 



THE grayling haunts clear and rapid ftreams, 

 and particularly fuch that flow through 

 mountanous countries. It is found in the rivers 

 of Berhyffoire ^ in fome of thofe of the north ; in 



* Who favored the Royal Society with a paper on the Welch 

 charr. Vide Phil. Tranf. 1755. 



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