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Title: A history of the fishes of the British Islands
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870 Lydon, A. F
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ntage, through the kindness of RobertEmbleton, Esq., of having the opportunity of deriving our figureand description from undoubted examples of this fish, fromLoch Grannock, in the Highlands of Scotland; where or inwhich neighbourhood alone it has hitherto been found in theUnited Kingdom; and where, as well as even in Siberia, itinhabits places subject to a greater degree of cold than doothers of this family. In Norway it has been observed to goup the course of rivers more freely than other Chars; and itsrange in that direction is higher than that of the Salmon, orindeed than any other fish; for it approaches within two thousandfeet of the line of perpetual snow. Linnteus found them caught,together with Pikes, in a river in Lycksele, Lapland, by fishermenin the month of June. It is said to shed its spa^vn in Septemberand October. In a review in the Fishermans Magazine,vol. i, of the Rev. Mr. Barnards book, entitled Sport inNorway, probably referring to this species, it is said that in
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ALPINE CIIIR. 273 all the northern rivers the Char will take a fly greedily; andhe remembers to have heard from a Norwegian fisherman thaton one occasion he thus caught a Char in the open sea, somedistance from the mouth of the river. The example described, which was a female from LochGrannock, was seven inches and a half in length; the shapeplump, deep, the belly protuberant; forehead a little rounded;eye moderate; jaws equal, mystache extending to the hindmostborder of the eye; small incurved teeth in it and the jaws,round the palate and on the tongue; in the latter Avidclyseparate, in two rows; none seen in the vomer. Nostrils aboutmidway between the eye and the snout. Head flat betweenthe eyes, with a slight ridge. Small scales on the body; lateralline straight, the pores obscure. The body becomes narrowertowards the tail. Dorsal fin anterior to the middle of thelength, with eleven rays, the first short, and two last from oneroot. Anal Avith eleven rays, the third longest; pectora

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