74 SALMONID.E. 



the Tweed was the Salmon Trout, not the young Bull Trout, 

 which now go by the name of Trouts simply. The Bull 

 Trout take the river at two seasons. The first shoal come 

 up about the end of April and May. They are then small, 

 weighing from two to four or five pounds. The second, and 

 by far the more numerous shoal, come late in November. 

 They then come up in thousands, and are not only in fine 

 condition, but of a much larger size, weighing from six to 

 twenty pounds. The Bull Trout is an inferior fish, and is 

 exactly what is called at Dalkeith and Edinburgh, Mussel- 

 burgh Trout. Mr. Yarrell is mistaken when he says these 

 fish afford good sport to anglers ; quite the contrary : a clean 

 Bull Trout, in good condition, is scarcely ever known to take 

 fly or bait of any description.* It is the same in the Esk at 

 Dalkeith. I believe I have killed as many, indeed I may ven- 

 ture to say I have killed more Salmon with the rod, than any 

 one man ever did, and yet put them all together I am sure I 

 have not killed twenty clean Bull Trout. Of Bull Trout 

 Kelts, thousands may be killed. The great shoal of these 

 Bull Trout, not taking the river till after the commencement 

 of close time, are in a great measure lost both to the pro- 

 prietor and the public." 



The description is taken from an adult male of thirty-two 

 inches in length, from which the cut at the head of this 

 article was drawn and engraved. 



The length of the head compared to that of the body 

 only is as one to four ; the teeth and the form of the 

 parts of the gill-covers have been already described ; the 

 elongation of the under jaw is peculiar to the males only, 

 but is not in the Grey Trout so conspicuous as in the 

 Salmon ; the dorsal fin commences half-way between the 

 point of the nose and the origin of the short upper caudal 



* A mistake as to season, or time of year, not of the species. 



