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most interesting localities and their inhabitants could not 
fail to result in fresh discoveries of natural laws and their 
working. We throw out the hint, deeply impressed as we 
are with the assurance that there is plenty for every one 
to do, and that Nature's well is fathomless. 
In Caithness the only loch known to us containing charr is 
Loch Calder. There it preserves its Gaelic name of Tar- 
clmrcj (or red-belly). 
196. Osmerus eperlanus {Flem.). Smelt. 
Mr. Peach informs us he has caught the smelt when fishing 
for sillocks. Edward says it is rare on the Banffshire 
coast. 
197. Coregonus clupeoides, Ladp. Gwyniad. 
198. Coregonus vandesius, Pdch. Vendace. 
199. Coregonus pollan, Thomp. Pollan. 
200. Thymallus vulgaris, Nilss. Grayling. 
2or. Argentina syphroena, L. 
Edward has recorded a male full of milt taken near Banff in 
October 1876 (Day, Brit. Fishes, vol. ii. p. 138). 
Family CLUPEID.ffi. 
202. Clupea harengus, L. Herring, 
Occurs along the east coast the whole year, but most abundant 
in the summer and early autumn ; fish full of roe are taken 
in the early spring, but do not appear to have the fine 
flavour of the autumn herring. Abundant on the west 
