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The cceca in the above were accurately reckoned, so that in the six 
specimens they vary in number from 34 to 49. 
Oct. 2 Qtli, 1838 I received from Lord Cole a female specimen of this 
fish (apparently from 10 to 12 lbs. weight) taken in L. Erne. Lord C. 
remarked in a note relative to this specimen sent to me, that a similar 
fish of 12 lbs. was taken about the same time. My specimen was 2 feet 
9-|- inches long ; chiefly beneath the lateral line were many XXX like 
markings ; above it they were generally round, as all were on opercula. 
In the market to-day were several Buddaghs from L. Neagh, male and 
female, of great size, some 14 lbs. weight. On looking over them, I saw that 
the males had nearly all the spots round, but the females had all, at least 
a few, and some many, indeed the half, of the spots either single crosses 
X, or a combination of them. Some of these had spawned, others had 
the spawn just ready for exclusion, as it was in the L. Erne specimen. 
The tail of this individual was obscurely lunate when unstretched, but 
when fully expanded was convex. I am satisfied that there has been much 
confusion on this point by authors ; we see that even in the same indi- 
vidual it is reversed according to the way we view it ; whether in repose 
(i. e. of death) or expansion. The stomach of this fish was empty. The 
cceca 45 in number. The ova weighed 21 ounces. To approximate the 
number of ova in this weight, or to see what a fish of about 11 lbs. total 
weight would produce, I weighed one ounce of the ova and reckoned their 
number, which was about 220. This number to 21 ounces (and the ova 
were all similar in size) would be 4620 ova in toto. 
I could not but be struck with the disparity in several points of view 
between this fish and a char, from Lochgrannard in Scotland {S. Umbla, 
Linn.), which I examined on the 20th instant in a similar way, and the 
ova, just in the same way, ready for exclusion. 
Thus a char of 7^ inches long, which weighed altogether oz., and its 
ova singly half an oz. and 1 a. drachms — here the ova were two lines in 
diameter, and in total number but 482, or less than that of its congener 
the S.ferox. Vide Journal , Oct. 4th, 1837. 
August, 1839. — Mr. Jarvey of Glasgow, who has fished much in Loch 
Lomond, states that there is a trout there, called the powan-eater, which 
he agrees with me is the S. ferox. 
Swift, in “ a dialogue in Hibernian style between A and B,” makes A 
inquire — “ What kind of man is your neighbour Squire Dolt? — B. Why, 
a mere Buddagh. He sometimes coshers with me ; and once a month I 
take a pipe with him, and we shot it about for an hour together.” — Scott’s 
Swift, 2nd ed. 1824, vol. vii. p. 156. 
On inquiring from Dr. M‘Donnell the meaning of Buddagh, he replied 
it meant “ a big, fat fellow.” 
In writing a history of S.ferox (see Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v. p. 318), 
Mr. Robert M‘Garry tells me that “ Buddagh ” from ten pounds upwards 
are taken in Lough Neagh with night-lines, baited with a pollan or perch ; 
caddis-worms are successfully used in the capture of all species of trout 
but the Gillaroo, which neither he nor any of his friends, who were the 
regular fishermen of Lough Neagh, ever took in this way, though they 
have occasionally taken it with the fly. 
Measurements of a Lough Neagh Salmo ferox kindly made for me by 
Professor Stevelly, Sept. 27th, 1848. He saw it at or near Dungannon. 
