CONTENTS. XV 



PART II. 



CHAPTER I. 



Natural History of Salmon — Letter from Mr. Young — 

 Mr. Shaw's Theory doubted — Salmon preparing to 

 spawn — Length of Spawning Season — Salmon-fry al- 

 ways in Rivers — Early and late Spawning — Interesting 

 Facts — Instinct of Salmon — Formation of the Spawn- 

 ing-bed — Deposition and Impregnation of Ova — Spawn- 

 ing-bed completed — Length of Ditto — Change of Ditto 

 — Spawning-bed made piecemeal — Salmon Ova de- 

 scribed — Growth of Fish in ovo — Interesting Spectacle 



— Moment of Anxiety — Satisfactory Experiments — 

 Gravity of Spawn — Hatching Process — Destruction of 

 Ova — By what destroyed — Where Salmon do not breed 

 — Growth of Salmon-fry — Admeasurement of — Always 

 in Rivers — Migratory Coat — Smolts ready for Sea 



— Growth of Salmon at Sea — Unequal Growth — 

 Handsome and ugly Grilse — Grilse stronger than Sal- 

 mon, and larger — Rapid Growth of Salmon — Fables 

 about Ditto — How Salmon leap — Distance of Leaps — 

 Salmon ascending Rapids — JMigrating — Atrocious Con- 

 trivances — Travelling Pace of Salmon — Salmon a fresh- 

 water Fish — Salmon-fry described — Plates of Ditto — 

 The " Parr " a Trout — Size and age of the Smolt — Our 

 and Mr. Shaw's Specimens •- - _ Page 157 



