JllVE^ 5 GENE, j_ANGDAlE. 



Order IV. 

 PHYSOSTOMT. 



Family 



SALMONID^. 



Sub-generic Group — -Salmones. 



Pull €^rout. 



(Salmo eriox.J 



The Scurf, Trutta salmonata, and Bull Trout, etiam dicta, 

 Salmo eriox, Grev Trout, Roundtail, 



WiLLUGHBY, Hist. Pise. p. 193. 

 Yarrell, Brit. Fish. ii. p. 71. 



nVT"0 distinct species," says Dr. Giinther, "is designated by this name (Bull Trout); at 

 -'^^ all events the name is applied to different species at different localities, and by different 

 persons. We have received numerous examples of S. fruffa under this denomination ; I have 

 also seen stuffed examples of 'Bull Trout,' each of them of a peculiar aspect, but without 

 any characters by which the species could be determined. It would appear that many 

 examples somewhat differing in general aspect from 5. tyiitta are named Bull Trout." — 

 {Catalogue, vi. p. 23, note.) In his Addenda (p. 356) the same learned ichthyologist thus writes 

 of a fine male sterile specimen of Salmo salar three feet long, caught in the Beauly at the 

 beginning of April, and presented by Lord Lovat as "Bull Trout:" — "Whilst this sheet 

 was passing through the press, Lord Lovat' s kindness afforded me an opportunity of seeing 

 other specimens of 'Bull Trout,' at the moment when taken out of the water. It is his 

 opinion that at least some of the fish are hybrids between the .Salmon and -Sea Trout (S. 



