COMMON TROUT. 85 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. SALMONID.E. 



THE COMMON TROUT. 



Salmofario, LINN/EUS. 



BLOCH, pt. i. pi. 22 & 23. 

 ,, Goodemi, pt. iii. pi. 102. 



., fario, River-Trout, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 399, pi. 70. 

 ,, Trout, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 85. 



,, ,, Common Trout, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 181, sp. 47. 



,, ,, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 424. 



JARDINE, Illust. Scot. Salm. pi. 5 & 12. 



THE COMMON TROUT is too widely diffused and too 

 generally known to make any enumeration of particular 

 localities necessary ; it is an inhabitant of most of the 

 rivers and lakes of Great Britain, and so closely identified 

 with the pursuits and gratifications of sportsmen, that those 

 landed proprietors who possess streams of water favourable 

 to the production and growth of Trout preserve them with 

 great care and at considerable expense. The Trout, though 

 a voracious feeder, and thus affording excellent diversion 

 to the experienced angler, is so vigilant, cautious, and 

 active, that great skill as well as patience are required to 



