134 MALACOP. ABDOM. SALMON FAMILY. 



London market is supplied from various quarters. 

 Mr. Yarrell informs us that those from Perth, Dun- 

 dee, Montrose, and Aberdeen, appear from their 

 comparative depth of body, to be better fed, are 

 higher in colour, and considered to be finer in flavour 

 than those from some other localities. 



(Sp. 1270 '^' /<^Ho. Common Trout. This 

 beautiful species is among the most familiarly know^n 

 of our fresh- water fishes, being generally distributed 

 not only throughout our own island but over the 

 whole of Northern Europe, and so plentiful that 

 there is scarcely a collection of water of any extent, 

 whether running or stationary, in which it does not 

 occur in more or less abundance. Although its 

 flesh has not the rich flavour of the Salmon and 

 Sea-trout, it is still in request as a highly palatable 

 and wholesome food; and although it does not 

 afford to the angler the same exciting interest as the 

 pursuit of the nobler species just named, it is suffi- 

 ciently cautious, vigilant, and active, as to require, 

 for its capture, the exercise of great skill and patience, 

 and from its general diffusion, it is always at hand 

 to invite the trial. It is indeed pre-eminently the 

 angler's fish. He may occasionally exert his skill on 

 others, but generally speaking, he has an opportunity 

 of doing so, at least in Scotland, only under tempo- 

 rary circumstances, and he again falls back on the 

 Trout as the staple and permanent object of his pur- 

 suit. Never leaving our own rivers, it is always ready 

 to be tempted by a bait ; and never undertaking long 

 iourneys, like its migratory allies, it is at no time so 



