^ 



Dn the Jrout Stream, Priffield. 



Order IV. 

 PHVS0ST03I1. 



Family 

 SALMONID^. 



Sitli-gencrk group — Salhones. 



'OMMON 



ROUT. 



fSah/io far 10. J 



Salur, 



Trutia fluvtaiilis, 



Sa/mo, maxilla inferiore paulo longiore, 



maculis ruhris, 

 Salmo fario. 



River Trout Salmon, 

 Common Trout, 

 Trutta fario. 



AusoNius, Id. X. 1. 88. 



Gesner; Rondeletius; Bello.v; Willughby, p. igg. 



Artedi, Spec. Pise. p. 23, No 5. 



Lin., Sys. Nat. p. 509; Donov., Brit. Fish. iv. pi. 85; Flem., Brit. 



Anim. p. 181; Jenyns' Man. p. 424; Yarrell, ii. p. 85; 



Gunther's Cat. vi. p. 59. 

 Pennant, Bnt. Zool. iii. p. 408, ed. 1812. 

 Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. p. 225. 

 Siebold's Siisserwasserf. p. 319. 



'*XT i.s a matter of surprise," says Pennant, "that this common fish has escaped the notice 

 -*- ot all the ancients, excepting Ausonius ; it is also singular that so delicate a species 

 should be neglected at a time when the folly of the table was as its height, and that the 

 epicures should overlook a fish which is found in such quantities in the lakes of their neiq-h- 

 bourhood, when they ransacked the universe for dainties. The milts of Mitncna were brought 



