730 PISCES — SEA-TROUT. ..TROUT. 



ry, being marked with ? scissors on the back fin, was again taken on the 

 seventeenth of March following, and was then found to weigh seventeen 

 pounds and a half. 



THE SEA-TROUT, OR SALMON-TROUT,* 



Migrates like the salmon up several of our rivers, spawns, and returns to 

 the sea. The shape is thicker than the common trout. The head and back 

 are dusky, with a gloss of blue and green, and the sides, as far as the lateral 

 line, are marked with large irregular spots of black. The flesh, when boiled, 

 is red, and resembles that of a salmon in taste. 



THE TROUT. 2 



This is a fish of prey, has a short, roundish head, blunt nose, and wide 

 mouth, filled with teeth, not only in the jaws, but on the palate and tongue; 

 the scales are small, the back ash color, the sides yellow, and, when in sea- 

 son, it is sprinkled all over the body and covers of the gills with small beau- 

 tiful red and black spots ; the tail is broad. 



The colors of the trout, and its spots, vary greatly in different waters, and 

 in different seasons ; yet each may be reduced to one species. In Llyndivi, 

 a lake in South Wales, are trouts called cochy-dail, marked with red and 

 black spots as big as sixpences ; others unspotted, and of a reddish hue, that 

 sometimes weigh near ten pounds, but are bad tasted. 



In Lough Neagh, in Ireland, trouts are called buddaghs, which sometimes 

 weigh thirty pounds. 



Trouts are common in all the mountainous parts of the United States 

 east of t.ie Alleghany ridge. 



1 Salmo trutta, Lin. j Salmo fario, Lin. 



