The Salmon 63 
has rich feeding and has grown to a considerable size it may have as 
many as twelve rings on its scales when it is only six months old; but 
notwithstanding this, in March, when it is a year old, it will only 



Fic. 53.—April 1905. FIG. 54.—1 oz. August 1904. 

FIG. 56.—14 0z. April 1905. 
Fic. 55.—I4 0z. Stormontfield Ponds. 
19th March 1908, 
have sixteen (Fig. 53). I reckon from.March, the time the fry are 
hatched, and will keep to this month all through. If, then, a parr is 
hatched in March 1903 its scales will have sixteen rings by March 
1904 (Fig. 54), and thirty-two by March 1905 (Fig. 55). It becomes 
a smolt soon after, and goes down to the sea at the age of two years 
and one or two months (Fig. 56). We see nothing more of these 
