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INDEX. 



sea trout, some young not 



migratory, 177 

 sea trout. Southern race, 150, 



160 

 sea trout, tail fins of, 156 

 sea trout, variations of colour 



in, 171 

 sea trout, varieties of, 172 

 sea trout, young of, 177 

 sea trout, Welsh names of, 102 

 Sebago salmon, 51 

 segregation of fishes, 30 

 seine nets, 138 

 Serrasalmus, 2 

 Serres on fish monsters, 273 

 Seth Green, 35, 36 

 set nets, 139 

 Severn, river, 28 

 Severn, salmon of, 118 

 sewin, 10, 11, 143, 144, 150, 151, 



152, 161, 162, 176 

 sewin, habits of, 164 

 sewin, head of, 160 

 sewin hybrids, 48, 144 

 sewin in shoals, 176 

 sewin selecting rivers, 174 

 sewin, tail fins of, 163 

 sewin, teeth on vomer of, 163 

 sexual distinctions, sea trout, 



172 

 shad, 5 



Shannon, fisheries of, 135 

 Shaw, 29, 31, 48, 158 

 shed, 58 

 shedder, 58 

 sheets, 279 

 shiags, 58 



Shin, captures of grilse in, 94, 95 

 Shin, captures of salmon in, 94, 



95 

 shot, 204, 279, 280 

 shrimps for salmon fishing, 130 

 shutts, 279 

 Sibbald, Sir R., 217 

 Sibbald's trout, 151 

 sil-bodiam, 162 

 silver-grays, 154 

 silver-whites, 154 

 silvery coat in Salmonida3, 220 

 silver char, 235, 239 

 silvery fontinalis, 249 

 silvery livery of smolts, 90 

 silvery trout, 190, 191, 195, 201 

 simen, 58 



Sim, Mr. G., on trout ca;ca, 188 

 simple monsters, 276 

 size of Lochlevens, 230 

 skegger, 58, 83, 99 

 skegger trout, 83 

 skeleton, 14, 15 

 skerling, 58, 83, 84, 118 

 skin, 18 

 skull, 16 

 slats, 58, 96 



sluggish water, effects of, 35 

 small meshed nets, 120 

 smell, 19 



smelt, 3, 5, 58, 159 

 smelt-sprods, 154 

 Smith, Dr. F. A., 237 

 smolt, 58, 87, 90, 102 

 smolts, autumn migration of, 



90, 91, 92 



smolts, colours of, 55 



smolts, descending seawards, 

 87, 88, 89, 90, 92 



smolt eggs fecundated, 103 



smolt eggs milted from pars, 

 103 



smolt eggs milted from trout, 

 103 



smolts, how descend rivers, 74 



smolts, killing of, laws, 131 



smolts in sea water, 90 



smolts, large, 26 



smolts migrating, 93 



smolts reasceud as grilse, 92 



smolts taken in November, 133 



smolt with ova, 102, 103 



smouts, 83 



snow-fed rivers, effects on 

 migration, 61 



snow water, effects on salmon 

 spawning, 64 



soles, 5 



Solway, fixed engines in, illegal, 

 132 



Solway migratory trout, 11 



Solway, salmon of, 117 



sparling, 58 



spawn, 23, 58, 162 



spawning affected by nourish- 

 ment, 70 



spawning die after, salmon, 96 



spawning grounds for salmon, 

 80 



spawning, how artificially done, 

 30, 31 



spawning of salmon, 77, 81 



spawning salmon, too many in 

 river, 133 



spawning time of salmon, 61, 

 62, 04 



spawning time changed in 

 rivers, 61, 62 



spawning trap for trout, 30 



spearing salmon, 136 



species, 7 



species, utility of knowledge of, 

 50 



speckled trout, 247 



spermatozoa, 23 



spermatozoon deformed, 272, 

 273 



Spey, fisheries of, 128, 129 



spines affected, 277 



splash nets for bull trout, 181 



spotted troutlet, 247 



sprag, 58 



spraid, 59 



sprats, 58 



sjjring-rua fish, 90 



spring tides affect salmon mi- 

 grating, 72 



sprods, 58, 150, 154, 159 



sprod, angling for, 175 



sprod, fiesh of, 159 



stage nets, 139 



stake nets, 140 



stake nets commenced in Scot- 

 land, 132 



stake nets for salmon, 124 



sterile trout, 144, 210 



sterility of eggs due to imma- 

 ture parents, 78 



sterility of salmon, 106 



sterility from deficiency of food, 



70 

 Stoddart, 159 

 stomachicus, Salmo, 11, 195, 



198 

 stomach of gillaroo, 194 

 stomach of salmon empty, 107 

 stomach of trout thickened, 189 

 stomach thickened in trout, 203 

 stop-net, 139 



Stormontfield ponds, 29, 127 

 stiUing, 138 

 streamer, 58 



stocking with young fish, 45 

 stromii, Lepeoptheirus, 110 

 struanensis, Salmo, 232, 238, 



239 

 Struans crossed by British char, 



266 

 Struans crossed by Lochlevens, 



266 

 Struans crossed by Struans, 265 

 Struan hybrids, 263, 264 

 sturgeon, 141 

 sucker, 5 

 summer-cock, 58 

 Sutherlandshire salmon fish- 

 eries, 129 

 Swaledale trout, 195 

 sweep-nets, 138 

 Sweden, breeding of Salmonidaa, 



27 

 swim-bladder, 20 



tadpoles, 37 



tail- fin affected, 277 



tail-fins of brook trout, 199 



tail-less trout, 203 



tails, heterocercal, 13 



tails, homocercal, 12 



tails of Lochlevens, 222 



Talitrus locusta, 178 



tapeworms, 110 



tarr-dhearg, 240 



Tasmania, 7 



Tasmania, trout for, 22, 27, 28 



taste, 19 



taurina, Salmo, 190 



taurina, Trutta, 180 



taurinus, Salmo, 218 



Tay, fisheries, 120 



Tay Navigation Act, effects of, 

 127 



Tay, river, 29 



tecon, 58, 83 



teeth in Salmonida3, 21 



teeth nearly absent in a trout, 

 203 



teeth of Lochlevens, 222, 223 



teeth of trout, 155 



teeth, vomerine, 6, 10 



Teifi, river, 216 



telara, Engraulis, 5 



tcmi^erature and food, how con- 

 nected, 63 



temperature for incubation, 35 



temperature of rivers affecting 

 time of migration, 63, 64, 68 



temijerature of salmon, 9 



tench, 48 



Tetragonopterus, 2 



Tetrodon cutcutia, 5 



Thaleichthys, 3 



