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never tipped with red, nor is the edge of the anal white,’ can 
only be considered as generally correct. Two of my pars do, 
though very faintly, show red on the adipose fin, and one half 
of them have the base of the anal fin white.” ‘The three 
most striking characters of the par in contradistinction to the 
common trout, are—its tail being more forked, its having only 
two or three spots on the opercula, and its want of dark-colowred 
“spots beneath the lateral line. The pectoral fin of the par is 
larger, and the hinder portion of the operculum less angular 
than in the common trout.” 
Yarrewu (“British Fishes,” 1841, ii., page 14, &c.) says, 
“Tn order to prevent any misconception of the terms employed, 
I shall speak of the young salmon of the first year as a pink ; 
on its second year, until it goes to sea, as a smolt ; in the 
autumn of the second year, as salmon-peal or grilse ; and after- 
wards as adult salmon.” ‘“ Mr SHaw’s experiments have gone 
very far towards convincing many that the par, as a distinct 
species, does not exist” (page 84). 
In the “ List of the Specimens of British Animals in the 
Collection of the British Museum,” “ Fish” was written by Mr 
Apam Waite in 1851, and at page 76 the par is given as the 
young of the salmon and sea trouts. 
Mr Youne, the Manager of the Duke of SuTHERLann’s 
Fisheries, was experimenting as to whether par were or were 
not the young of the salmon, at the same time as Mr Suaw, 
and he asserted that they certainly were the young of Salmo 
salar. In a letter from Invershin, dated January, 1853, and 
which was published, he observed: “The fry remain in the 
river one whole year, from the time they are hatched to the 
time they assume their silvery coat and take their first departure 
to the sea. All the experiments we have made on the ova 
and fry of the salmon have exactly corresponded to the same 
effect, and none of them have taken longer in arriving at the 
smolt than the first year.” 
In the evidence given in the case of GALBRAITH versus SHAW, 
at Dunblaine in January, 1858, some river watchers deposed 
as follows: —‘“‘I have not seen a female par with spawn 
