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SALMONID.^ OF BRITAIN. 



Fig. 27. Head, f natural size, of female 

 salmon-trout, 12-3 inches long. 



Fig. 



28. Head, I natural size, of male 

 salmon-trout, 20 inches long. 



The race of Sea tro2d* generally considered as otir northern one,t is also known 

 as the Salmon or Bull trcut ; Gray salmon of the Tweed ; Round-tail in the Annan ; 

 Scurf, Scurve, or Salmon-scurf oi the Tees, likewise as CocMvie near the mouth of 

 that river ; Fordwich trout (ctec. 50) ; Candlemas gray, a kelt in Cumberland and 

 Westmoreland.]; In the grilse-stage in Scotland, as Plvinoc or Finnocl;^ Herling, 

 Moudie-trout, or in the northern English rivers as Whitlings or Whitings,\\ also 

 Lammasmen^ in the Edinburgh market for August ones, while some unclean sea- 

 trout are termed thus in the river Allan, and g%dl of August, and mort of the 

 Cumberland rivers. White trout, Ireland. In the smolt-stage, as Sprod, in Cumber- 

 land, also sea-trout grilse are sometimes so termed ; wdiile the par in Scotland and 

 those becoming smolts are known as Orange-fins or Yellow-fins, Blaclc-tails, Silver- 

 zvhites. Silver-grays and Burn-tails in the Tyne, and in Cumberland as Smelt-sprods 

 and Herring-sjirods. A correspondent of Land and Water (March 27th, 1880), gave 

 the following as the Gaelic names of salmon-trout in the north of Scotland : gead- 

 hhreac and hriccan, and sea-trout as breac-sdil and hreac-mara, and salmon-fry as 

 min-iasg and siol-hradain, and trout of any kind as hreac or hricean — also of 

 salmon-trout in Ireland as colagan. 



B. x-xii, D. 12-14 (^l-,%) I 0, P. 13-14, V. 9, A. 11-13 (f:|), C. 19-21, L 1. 

 115-130, L t. f|:-H, Vert. 57-60, Ctec. pyl. 33-61. 



Body rather elongated, but not so elegantly shaped as in the salmon, being 

 thicker and shorter in proportion : the abdominal profile more curved than that 

 of the back. The proportions of one part of the body to the remainder vary con- 

 siderably, while the head is longer in males than in females; irrespective of which, 

 there appears to be a disposition in some forms to have abnormally longer or 

 shorter heads, in fact, to form a longer or shorter headed race. The young in 

 many respects are similar to those of the salmon, but with the pectoral fins always 

 shorter. Length of head in adults 4:\ to h\, of caudal fin from 7t to 8, height of 

 body from 4| to h\ in the total length. jE/7/es— diameter about &\ to *7\ in 

 examples exceeding 15 inches in length, about 2 to 2i diameters from the end of 

 the snout, and the same distance apart : they are comparatively much larger in the 



* The term Salmon-trout was originally employed under the impression that some form ('? all) 

 of sea trout were hybrids between the salmon and the trout, 

 t Salmo trutta (tice synonymy, p. 149 (uite). 



I Ctnidlemas, or the Feast of Candles, held on February 2nd. 

 § I'tiiiioli, Mr. Orr states, means " yellow fin." 



II The term WhitVnui in a few localities appears to be employed for sea trout larger than when 

 in the grilse stage: while some of the terms given as applicable to smolts of this form arc 

 in other places used for their grilse condition. Stoddart observed that, if breeding, it is called a 

 BUI in the Tweed and Esk. 



^ Lammas, loaf, mass, or feast, a festival of first-fruits, celebrated on August 1st. 



