TORGOCH OF LLANBERRIS. 
WELSH CHAR. 
Salmo Ganibrieus, Gunthbk; Journal of Zoological Society, 
1862, p. 13, pi. 6, but the trivial name 
since changed to S. Perisiaims, to 
distinguish this fish from S. Gamhrieus 
of Donovan, which is the Sewen. 
This species rarely exceeds a foot in length, and for the 
table was in high esteem, so that what might be termed a 
regular fishery was carried on for taking it, hy which, says 
Mr. Hansard, a hundred dozen of them were caught yearly. 
Since that time the numbers have fallen greatly short, in 
consequence, as was supposed, of a flow into the lake of the 
water of a copper mine, which was believed to have destroyed 
the whole of them. This, however, is a mistake, since they 
are still obtained in some abundance; and not in this lake 
only, hut also in Llyn Cwyllcan, situated in a deep valley on 
the west side of Snowdon. They come up out of their greater 
depths in the depth of winter, and when the weather is at 
the coldest they sport in the shallower water close to the 
•border, but soon again retire to their former haunts. They 
are taken with a worm, and sometimes are known to rise to 
a fly. 
The body is compressed and lengthened; length of the 
head considerably more than one half of the distance from the 
snout to the line of the origin of the dorsal fin; upper profile 
of the head not elevated above the margin of the orbit, and 
is not even slightly ridged, but slightly concave; the median 
ridge scarcely visible. Snout rather depressed, the lower a 
