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The results of tlie experiment of introducing this salmon into 

 New York waters are as yet unknown, but it is to be hoped that it 

 will be successful. Since the change of method by which larger 

 fish are employed for transplanting, the outlook appears to be 

 more favorable. 



Genus salmo (Artedi) Linnaeus 



Body elongate, somewhat compressed; mouth large, jaws, 

 palatines, and tongue toothed, as in related genera, vomer flat, 

 its shaft not depressed, a few teeth on the chevron of the vomer, 

 behind which is a somewhat irregular single or double series of 

 teeth, which in the migratory forms are usually deciduous with 

 age; scales large or small, 110 to 200 in a longitudinal series; 

 dorsal and anal fins short, usually of 10 to 12 rays each; caudal 

 fin truncate, emarginate or forked, its peduncle comparatively 

 stout; sexual peculiarities variously developed, the males in 

 typical species with the jaws prolonged and the front teeth en- 

 larged, the lower jaw being hooked upward at the end and the 

 upper jaw emarginate or perforate. In the larger and migratory 

 species these peculiarities are most marked. Species of moder- 

 ate or large size, black spotted, abounding in the rivers and lakes 

 of North America, Asia and Europe; no fresh-water species 

 occurring in America east of the Mississippi valley; two Atlantic 

 species, marine and anadromous. The nonmigratory species 

 (subgenus T r u 1 1 a) are in both continents very closely related 

 and difficult to distinguish, if indeed all be not necessarily re- 

 garded as forms of a single one. The excessive variations in 

 color and form have given rise to a host of nominal species. 



^ 131 Salmo salar Linnaeus 



Atlantic Salmon 



Salmo salar Linnaels, Sjst. Kat. cd. X, I, 308, 1758; Seas of Europ^s 

 MiTCHiLL. Trans. Lit. & Thil. Soc. N. Y. I, 435, 1815; De Kay, N. Y. 

 Fauna, Fis-hes, 2il, pi. 38, fig. 122, 1842; Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus. VI, 11, 18G6; Stoker, Hist. Fish. Mass. 142, pi. XXV, fig. 2, 1867; 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 312, 1883; Goode, Fish 

 & Fish. Ind. U. S. I, 468, pi. ISO. uppor fig. 1884; Bean, Fishes Pcnna. 

 74, color pi. 4, 1893; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 486, 1806; Bean, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 344, 1897. 



