On the Pee, Scotland. 



Order IV. 

 PHYSOSTOMI. 



Family 

 SALMONIDM. 

 Sub-generic Group — Salmones. 



§ALMON J ROUT. 



fSahno trutta.J 



Trutta salmonaia. The Scurf or Bull Trout, 

 White Salmon, 

 Salmo trutta. 



Trutta trutta. 



WiLLUGHBY, Hist. PiSC. p. 1 93. 



Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. p. 396, ed. 181 2. 

 Fleming, Brit. Anim. p. 180; Jenyns' Man. p. 423; 



Yarrell, ii. p. 77; Parnell, Fish. Firtli of Forth (Mem. 



VVern. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 293); Gunther's Cat. vi. p. 22. 

 SiEBOLD, Siisserwasserf. p. 314. 



THE Salmon Trout, or, as it is also called, the Sea Trout, is, perhaps, next to the Salmon, 

 the most valuable of all the migratory species. It is most abundant in the rivers of 

 Scotland, but it occurs also in those of Ireland. In England and Wales it would seem that 

 this species is represented by the closely allied, if really distinct species, of the Sewen, or 

 Salmo cambricus. Dr. Gunther states that all the British specimens of Salmo trutta which he 

 has examined, with the exception of the Fordwich Trout, were from Scotland, and those ob- 

 tained from the rivers of Wales and Southern England belonged to Salmo cambricus. 



The Fordwich Trout is mentioned by Izaak Walton, vvho says, "There is also in Kent, 



