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ALPINE CHAR. 
Sahno alpinus, 
Salvelinus alpinus. 
LiSNjUUS. 
Nobis. 
Tt is pvoliable that Linnrcus never cTefinitely characterized 
this species as to he distinguished from otheis now known in 
his own country, as described by Nilsson; but it is probable 
that Artedi is correct when he refers it, as we have seen, to 
the Sahno Lapponicus alpinus of the M.S. of the Journey of 
Linnteus, which, under the title of Larhrsis lapponka, has since 
been published in English by Sir James Smith, P. L. S. Nilsson 
describes four species of Ohars as known in Scandina\ia; and 
he refers to Mr. Yarrell’s British Fishes as affording a satisfactory 
representation of this species; but in this respect we possess 
the superior advantage, through the kindness of Robert 
Emblcton, Esq., of having the opportunity of deriving our figure 
and description from undoubted examples of this fish, from 
Loch Graniiock, in the Highlands of Scotland; where or in 
which neighbourhood alone it has hitherto been found in the 
United Kingdom; and where, as w'ell as even iii Siberia, it 
inhabits places subject to a greater degree of cold than do 
others of this family. In Norway it has been observed to go 
up the course of rivers more freely than other Chars; and its 
range in that direction is higher than that of the Salmon, or 
indeed than any other fish; for it approaches wdthin two thousand 
feet of the line of perpetual snow^ Linnieus found them caught, 
together with Pikes, in a river in Lycksele, Lapland, by fishermen 
in the month of June. It is said to shed its spawn in September 
and October. In a review in the “Pisherman’s Magazine,” 
vol. i, of the Rev. Mr. Barnard’s book, entitled “Sport in 
Norway,” probably referring to this species, it is said that in 
