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ISLAND LIFE. 



[part II. 



Latin Name. 



5. Salmo stomachicus . 



6. „ nigripennis .. 



7. „ levenensis ... 



8. „ Perish 



9. „ WiLLUGIIBII .. 



10. „ KILLINENSIS .. 



11. COLII 



12. Grayi 



13. coregonus clupe- 



OIDES 



14. „ vandesius 



15. „ POLLAN.... 



English Name. 



Gillaroo trout 



Black-finned trout .. 



Loch Leven trout ... 



Welsh charr 



Windermere charr... 



Lough Killin charr .. 



Cole's charr... 



Gray's charr 



The gwyniad, or 

 Schelly 



The vendace 



The pollan 



Locality. 



Lakes of Ireland. 



Mountain lochs of 

 Wales and Scotland. 



Loch Leven, Loch 

 Lomond, Winder- 

 mere. 



Llanberris lakes, N. 

 Wales. 



Lake Windermere and 

 others in N. of Eng- 

 land, and Lake Brui- 

 ach in Scotland, 



Killin lake in Mayo, 

 Ireland. 



Lough Eske and Lough 

 Dan, Ireland. 



Lough Melvin, Leitrim, 

 N. W. Ireland. 



Loch Lomond, Ulles- 

 water, Haweswater, 

 and Bala lake. 



Loch Maben, Dum- 

 friesshire. 



Lough Neagh and 

 Lough Earne, N. of 

 Ireland. 



These fifteen peculiar fishes differ from each other and from 

 all British and continental species, not in colour only, but in 

 such important structural characters as the form and size of the 

 fins, the number of the fin-rays, and the form or proportions of 

 the head, body, or tail. They are in fact, as Dr. Giinther 

 assures me, just as good and distinct species as any other re- 

 cognised species of fish. It may indeed be objected that, until 

 all the small lakes of Scandinavia are explored, and their fishes 

 compared with ours, we cannot be sure that we have any peculiar 

 species. But this objection has very little weight if we consider 

 how our own species vary from lake to lake and from island to 

 island, so that the Orkney species is not found in Scotland, and 

 not one of the peculiar British species extends to Ireland, which 

 has no less than six species altogether peculiar to it. If the 

 species of our own two islands are thus distinct, what reason have 

 we for believing that they will be otherwise than distinct from 

 ihose of Scandinavia ? At all events, with the amount of evi- 

 dence we already possess of the very restricted ranges of many of 



