108 SALMONIA. 



seem to show, that after having taken a bait 

 in the river they do not usually offer to take 

 another, till the work of digestion is nearly 

 performed; but when they are taken at sea, 

 and in rivers in the winter, food, I am told, 

 is sometimes found in their stomachs. The 

 sea trout is a much more voracious fish, and, 

 like the land trout, is not willingly found 

 with an empty stomach. 



Phys. — I presume the sea trout is the fish 

 called by Linnaeus, in his Fauna, Salmo 

 Eriox ? 



Hal. — I know not: but I should rather 

 think that fish a variety of the common 

 salmon. 



Phys. — But there are surely other species 

 of salmon that live in the sea and come into 

 our rivers : I have heard of fish called greys, 

 bull trout, scurfs, morts, peales, and ivhit- 

 lings. 



Hal. I have never been able to identify 

 more than the salmo salac, or salmon, and 

 salmo trutta, or sea trout, in the rivers of 

 Britain and Ireland. The whitlings, I be^ 

 lieve to be the young of the sea trout. A 



