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have been obtained about twenty specimens of mature males of 
the Welsh Char or Torgoch from Llanberris, with four young 
specimens from the lake Coes-y-gedaul, and formerly in the 
possession of Mr. Yarrell; from which Mr. Jenyns derived his 
description of the fish he has represented as his Salmo salvelimis. 
To these are to be added two examples, one of which is of 
very large size, from the former Welsh lake, and furnished to 
myself by Mr. Embleton. 
For further comparison with the British species, Dr. Gunther 
was able to obtain from the Lake of Constance the “Rothel,” 
the “Ombre Chevalier” of the Lake of Geneva, four specimens 
of a Char from Iceland, and twelve examples from an uncertain 
situation; to which abundant materials I will add a couple of 
the Alpine Char of Loch Grannock, in Scotland, supplied to 
myself by Mr. Embleton. 
But before entering into the question of the British species 
of this family, it seemed desirable to ascertain wbat were the 
fishes to be understood by the Linnsean names of Salmo umbla, 
S. salvelims, and S. alpimis, and which are the designations that 
have been assigned to the really British species. For this 
purpose the original descriptions are found too general and 
unsatisfactory; but the question is settled by an examination of 
the names themselves, and by the situations from which the 
typical specimens were procured. As concerns the Salmo 
salvelinus of South Germany, TIeckel remarks that Linnscus has 
founded the species on the tenth of Salmo in Ai'tedi’s genera, or 
the eleventh of his Synonymy; and Artedi derived his knowledge 
of the fish from Willoughby, who gives a description of the 
“Salvelin,” from a specimen captured near the Austrian town 
of Linz; a circumstance which proves that the Linnasan name 
was intended for this German fish, which is still in many 
places called Salbling. The best account of this fish is given 
by Heckel, but on a close comparison with those British 
examples which were within Dr. Gunther’s reach, the conclusion 
is that none of them answer to the Salmo salvelinus of 
Linnaeus. The S. umbla of Linnasus is founded on the ninth 
species of Salmo in Artedi’s genera, or the seventh of his 
Synonymy, from Rondeletius, who described the S. Lemanilacus 
or umbla, or Ombre chevalier of Geneva and Neuchatel; but it 
never assumes the red colour of S. salvelinus, or of the Chars 
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