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XIV. Of the Gillaroo Trout . A Letter 
from the Hon. Dairies Barrington, to the 
Rev. Dr. Horfley. 
DEAR SIR, 
Redde,Dec .2 3 ,'YT’ OU will find upon the table a 
J /73- Gillaroo trout, as it is termed 
in Ireland, the peculiarity of which is, that the 
ilomach very much refembles the gizzard of a 
bird. 
The firft time I ever happened to hear of thefc 
lingular fifh, was from an Irifh Judge, who being 
on the Connaught circuit at Ballynrobe, in the 
county of Mayo, exprefled his incredulity with 
regard to their exigence, but was obliged to pay 
the common Irifh wager, of a rump of beef and a 
dozen of claret, on three or four being produced 
the next day from a neighbouring lake. 
Since that time I have endeavoured to procure 
a fpecimen, with the entrails adhering, and have 
at laft fucceeded, the ftomach upon the table 
having been extracted by Mr. hunter, f. r. s. 
in the prefence of feveral. 
I do not find that any ichthyologift takes notice 
of fuch a part belonging to fifh, except gouan 
■ who fays, that the ventricle, of fome forts, refem- 
bles the gizzard of fowls, by being partly flefhy* 
and partly membranous: gouan, however, does 
f Philofophia Ichthyologica, p. 80. 
not 
