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not fpecify the fpecies of fiih, which hath fuch a 
ftomach. 
No mention is made by any naturalift of this 
•variety in the trout ; nor is it noticed in the col- 
lection of tracts for illuftrating the natural hiftory 
of Ireland, which was publifhed in 1727, though 
their lakes and rivers are particularly described. 
If the fpecimen, now fhewn to the Society, was 
a Angle one, it might be confidered as an accident ; 
but there can be no doubt, of trouts being con- 
ftantly caught, with this extraordinary ftomach, in 
fome of the Irifh lakes, though the greater part 
indeed do not differ from the common forts : I 
have therefore been informed by Lord Louth, 
that he hath feen a fmall difh, confifting merely 
of fuch gizzards at an Irifh table in Galway, and 
I could corroborate this faCt, was it neceffary. 
by the teftimony of an Irifh Archbifhop. 
There are no exterior marks by which the fpe- 
cimen on the table can be diftinguifhed from the 
common trout ; but I have fhewn the ftomach to 
Everet of Clare-Market, a very intelligent fifh- 
monger, who declares, that though he hath cut up 
thoufands of trouts and falmons, he never ob» 
ferved any thing fimilar in the infide. 
Mr. hunter opened a charr, which is fcarcely 
diftinguifhable from a trout in it’s outward ap- 
pearance, and found the poke , as our fifhmongers 
call it, very different; you will find however the 
ftomach of a common trout upon the table, which 
may be compared with that of the Gillaroo, though 
it is admitted to be a bad fpecimen. 
I have been informed that the term Gillaroo 
fignifies a gizzard in the Irifh language; but as I 
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