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SALMON ID.E. 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



SALMON IDA:. 



THE PARR, OR SAMLET. 



Salmo salmulus, Wili.ughby, p. 192. 

 ,, ,, Ray, Syn. p. 63, sp. 2. 



,, ,, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 404, 



This little fisli, one of the smallest of tlie British Sal- 

 nionid(B, has given rise to more discussion than any other 

 species of the genus. Abounding in our Salmon rivers, 

 and conspicuous for those lateral marks which arc now known 

 to be borne also for a time by the young of the Trout as 

 well as the fry of the other Salmonida, and this fish always 

 appearing of small comparative size, it has frequently been 

 insisted upon as the young of the Salmon, and local regu- 

 lations have as generally been invoked for its preserva- 

 tion. 



The fry, however, of the different species of migratory 

 Salmonid<£ are even now probably accurately known only 

 to a few persons : their great similarity when very small 

 has so frequently deceived even those who have lived the 

 greater part of their lives on the Salmon river banks, that 



