LAKE TROUT. 
In Ireland, Buddagli — the Grey. 
Salmo ferox, Jaedine. Jesyns ; Manual, p. 425. 
“ “ Yaeeell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 110. 
This fish was little known to any except anglers until of 
late; and appears to have been first distinguished as a separate 
species by Sir William Jardine; but when we have heard of a 
fresh-water Trout as exceeding fifteen or twenty pounds in 
Aveight, we may venture to conjectui-e that the example referred 
to was the great Lake Trout. It is strictly a fish of the north, 
and is confined to the larger lakes or pieces of water, as well in 
Shetland, as the more distant parts of Scotland. Nilsson mentions 
it among the fishes of Siveden; and through the kindness of 
the Earl of Enniskillen I have obtained examples from the 
north of Ireland, where it is even common in places in which 
there is sufficient space for it to rove and feed; for it is to 
be observed of this species, as of several others of this family, 
that in a more limited space they are shorn of their full pro- 
portion of bulk and vigour. It is thus that some examples 
which, through the kindness of J. IMorrison, Esq., M.P., I 
obtained from Malham Tarn, in Yorkshire, the size was much 
less than those from Ireland. They are found also in the 
Llyn y Bugail, or Shepherds’ Pool, in Montgomeryshire; and 
it is to be remarked that in both these last-mentioned instances 
the pool or lake is on high ground, as if the degree of elevation 
Avas required to be an equivalent for the more northern situation 
of the Scottish waters. 
This is a formidable fish, as well from its size, in which it 
is equal to the Salmon, and much superior to the general run 
of that fish, as from the formidable armature of its mouth, in 
