1 1 4 The Salmon 



During 1911 I examined several parr sent me by Col. Percy Har- 

 greaves from the Aaro, and I found the following number of lines on 

 their scales : 5f-inch parr with fifteen lines ; 6f-inch with twenty-six 

 lines ; and 8-inch with thirty lines. 





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FIG. 120. 35-lb. Female (Namsen). I2th May 1911. 



NORWEGIAN SCALES ( RIVER NAMSEN) 



I am indebted to Henry J. Pearson, Esq., Bramcote, Notts., for 

 scales taken from River Namsen fish. 



The scale, Fig. 119, has in all seventy-five rings, twenty-three 

 of which are narrow ones, showing the fish had gone down when two 

 years old, or perhaps a month or so earlier. It came up as a grilse, 



