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Order IV. 

 PHYS08T0MI. 



Family 

 SALMONID.^. 



Sub-generic Group — Salmones. 



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Salmo mllii'ei 



GtJMTHER'i Cat. vi. p. 



I AM indebted to Mr. William Haynes, of Patrick Street, Cork, for some specimens of this 

 interesting- species of Salmon Trout from Galway. For the knowledge of this species 

 zoological science is indebted to Dr. Giinther, who first pointed out its characters. This 

 fish grows to the length of eighteen inches or more ; but the specimens so obligingly 

 sent me by Mr. Haynes are about eleven inches in length ; others are smolts or parrs with 

 about nine or ten transverse dark markings. As an article of diet it is as good as the 

 ordinary Salmon Trout, from which, indeed, it would not be distinguished by ordinary 

 observers. 



The most characteristic peculiarity of this Salmonoid is the small size of the pyloric 

 appendages ; in a specimen before me, eleven inches long, these stomachal caeca in their 

 greatest length are not much more than half an inch, and about the diameter of a line; as 

 Giinther says, "not thicker than the quill of a pigeon." The largest specimen before me 



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