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SALMONID.F-. 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



SALMONIDJE. 



THE GRAYLING. 



Thymallus vulgaris, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 306. 



,, ,, WILLUGHBY, p. 187, N. 8. 



Salmo thymallus, LINNAEUS. BLOCK, pt. i. pi. 24. 



,, ,, Grayling, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 414, pi. 72. 



DON. Brit.Fish.pl. 88. 



Coregonus ,, ,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 181, sp. 49. 



Thymallus vulgaris, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 430. 



THYMALLUS. Generic Characters. Head and body elongated ; the sides 

 marked with longitudinal bands ; two dorsal fins, the first much longer than 

 high, with numerous rays ; the second small, adipose, without rays : the mouth 

 small, the orifice square ; the teeth very small ; branchiostegous rays 7 or 8. 



THE GRAYLING, though abundant in some streams, 

 is yet a very local fish. Similar in many respects to the 

 Trout in its habits and wants, there are numbers of rivers 

 abounding with Trout that do not produce Grayling. In 

 the southern counties of Hampshire and Wiltshire, the 

 Grayling is found in the Test and both the Avons. In 

 Herefordshire, in the Dove, the Lug, the Wye, and the 

 Irvon. In Shropshire, in the Temc and the dun. In 



