220 NATURAL HISTORY 



IFishes. 



4. Abdominal. 

 GENUS XXI.— THE SALMON. 



Gen. Char. — Branchiostegous rays unequal in number; two dorsal fins, the second 



thick, and without rays. 



* With Teeth. 

 Species 1. — The Salmon. 



Salmon, Wil. Icth. 189- Raii Syn. Pise. 63. Salmo Salar, Lin. Sys. 569, 

 Brit. Zool. 239- Brit. Zool. Ilhs. 77, tab. 93. • 



What a pity it is that 1 am almost obliged to deny the 

 Salmon a place in the Orkney Zoology ; yet true it is, that 

 this noble fish is so seldom got here, that it is considered as a 

 wonder when one is thrown ashore, or runs so far up one of our 

 burns as to be taken. I have not heard of above three or four 

 instances of salmons being got in Orkney, three of which (if 

 they were all salmon) were killed and brought on shore by the 

 otter from the sea, and picked up by the country people, and 

 a fourth which stuck in a mill-wheel, and was caught by the 

 miller. 



I have been informed of a salmon-fishing on the mouth of 

 the loch of Stenness, and of heritors who have such a fishing 



