NOTES ON THE TEXT 533 



THE ALPINE CHARR. 



Salmo alpinus, L. 



' The largest he ever saw weighed 2 lbs.' (p. 5 1 4). 



Mr. Rawson has kindly ascertained for me that a Charr, 

 which weighed 2 lbs. 4 oz. was caught this spring [1892] in 

 Windermere. It was purchased by a local fishmonger named 

 Mudd, who sold it to a customer. This is the heaviest 

 that Mr. Rawson has been able to hear of. Charr were taken 

 in very good numbers in the spring of 1892. The largest take 

 of Charr this season scaled 320 lbs. 



G W Y N I A D. 



Goregonus clupeoides, Lacep. 



4 The existence of this fish in Ulleswater was well known in the 

 seventeenth century' (p. 515). • 



Sandford's record of the existence of this fish in Ulleswater 

 was followed by the independent evidence of Willughby, who 

 probably was the first to record in print the existence of this 

 species in Lakeland waters, which he did in 1686 : ' Lavareto 

 eundem omnino esse exestimo Schelley Cumberlandis dictum, 

 qui in lacu Hulswater non procul ab oppido Pereth invenitur.' 1 



Order PLEGTOGNA TBI. Fam. PETROMYZONTIDjE. 



L A M P E R N. 



Petromyzon Jluviatilis, L. 



* The River Lamprey is common' (p. 536). 



A paper entitled ' An Account of a remarkable Decrease of the 

 River Eden, in Cumberland : In a letter to Charles Lord Bishop 

 of Carlisle, F.R.S., from William Milbourne, Esq.,' was read 

 before the Royal Society on Jan. 13, 1763. This notice con- 

 tains a record of a sudden fall of the Eden at Armathwaite ' In 

 the night between the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth of 

 December last.' The decrease of the water was so sudden ' that 

 1 Historia Piscium, p. 184. 



