Volume 2

The history of British fishes / [Robert Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, Robert, M.D.
Date:
[1876]
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Credit: The history of British fishes / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been ascertained likewise to exist in Lough Corrib © and Lough Frne — thus inhabiting three of the largest lakes in Ireland, and it no doubt may be f rand in others. To mention the localities in Scot- land would be to enumerate the principal lochs of the kingdom. It has been so often found in Loch- o A we that it frequently gets the name of the Great Lake Trout of Loch-Awe. It seems to occur in Orkney also, and in Ulswater in Cumberland. The process of spawning has been observed in Loch- Awe : it takes place in the autumn, on the shelving banks of the lake where the waters find an outlet forming the River Awe. This great lucustrine trout attains a weight of from ten to twenty-five pounds. The best modes of fishing for it will be found described in Col- © quhoun’s Moor and Loch, and in the article Angling formerly referred to. (Sp. 130.) S. savelinm. The Chair. Like all the other Salmones permanently resident in our fresh waters, this pretty and finely flavoured fish is liable to great variation, and this has rendered its synonomy and history somewhat confused. It was for a time supposed that the Welsh Charr (the Tor- goch, or red belli/) was distinct from the Charr of the Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Scottish lakes, and they have actually been described as separate species by Mr. Jenyns. * Mr. Yarrell, too, at one time favoured this view, but a more careful exa- mination has led him to the opinion that all are * Manual of British Vertebrate Animals* p. 427.