Luckily this season, though there has been much moor burning, the general expectation has been agreeably disappointed, and the weather has now continued perfectly dry for several weeks, and appears likely to do so for some time to come, to the great delight of the farmers, as most propitious for sowing their grain of all kinds. J. SS. Lammermuir. THE FISH CALLED "VENDACE." (Vol. iii., p. 301.) A short time since, an eminent naturalist directed my attention to Yarrell's _History of British Fishes_ (2 vols. 8vo. 1836, and _Supplement_, 1839), with reference to this curious fish. Mr. Yarrell does not attempt to identify the vendace with any foreign species, nor to answer the question, who introduced them in Lochmaben? However, his account of the other species of the genus _Coregonus_ in Great Britain is well worth giving. The species of the genus _Coregonus_ are numerous in Europe, and several of them are so similar to each other that they are often confounded. "Some writers have even considered the Vendisse of Lochmaben as the same with the _Powan_ of [Loch Lomond] Perthshire, the _Schelly_ of Cumberland, the _Gwyniad_ of Wales, and the _Pollan_ of Ireland. This is not the case, for the Pollan of Ireland is distinct from the two species of _Coregonus_ found in Great Britain." "The _Gwyniad_ is very numerous in Ulswater and other large lakes of Cumberland, where on account of its large scales it is called the _Schelly_. The fish is not unlike a herring in appearance; the Welsh term _Gwyniad_ has reference to their silvery white colour." Izaak Walton notices it at the end of chap. xiii.: "Nor would I have you ignorant of a rare fish called a _Guiniad_," &c. The _Pollan_ is principally found in Loch Neagh, also in Loch Derg and Loch Erne. Mr. Thompson, of Belfast, says: "The habits of this fish do not, with the exception of having been in some instances taken with the artificial fly, differ in any marked respect from those of the Vendace of Scotland, or the Gwyniad of Wales, and are in accordance with such species of Continental Europe as are confined to inland waters, and of whose history we have been so fully informed by Bloch." In 1835, Mr. Thompson published some observations on this species. The earliest notice of it that he has seen, occurs, he says, in Harris's _History of County Down_, 1744. "The Vendace or Vendis (_Coregonus Willughbii_); Vendace, _Jardine_; Vangis and Juvangis, Penn, _Brit. Zool._, vol. iii. p. 420.; Vendace, Knox, _Trans. R.S.E._, vol. xii. p. 503.