192 Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of JYorth America. 



FAMILY XX. SALMONLDvE. 



Body scaly. First dorsal with soft rays, the second small and adipose. 

 Numerous cceca, and a natatory bladder. The structure and armature of the 

 jaws vary surprisingly. Almost all of them ascend rivers. 



GENUS I. SALMO, Lin. 



Head smooth ; teeth on the vomer, both palatine bones, and all the maxil- 

 lary bones ; branchiostegous rays varying in number, generally from ten to 

 twelve, but sometimes unequal on the two sides of the head of the same fish. 



1. Salmo salar, Lin. 



A beautiful, brilliant bluish silver-color above; lighter upon the sides, white beneath; 

 black blotches upon the sides, much more numerous above the lateral line. Dorsal, pec- 

 torals, and caudal, bluish ; ventrals dusky ; anal white. 



D. 12. P. 15- V. 9. A. 10. C. 19. Length, 2 to 3 feet. 



Labrador, Canada, Newfoundland, and Nova Scolia, Richardson, Dekay. Maine. 

 Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Linsley. New York, Mitchill, Dekay. 



Salmo salar, Lin., Syst. Nat. (12th edit.), p. 509. 

 " " Block, i. pi. 20 (female) ; in. p. 98 (male). 

 " " Salmon, Pennant's Brit. Zobl., vin. p. 382. 

 " ( ' Common Sea-Salmon. Shaw's Gen. Zobl., v. p. 40, fig. 102. 

 '' " Salmon, Fleming's Brit. An., p. 179, sp. 40. 

 " Jenvns's Brit. Vert., p. 421. 

 " " Griffith's Cuv . x p 416. 



" '"' '' Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 170. 



Common Sain Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. p 435. 



" De Witt Clinton, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. pp. 147, 49S 

 " " " " Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ, nr. p. 145. 



'• " Salmon, Storer's Report, p. 104. 

 " " Common Sea Salmon, Dekay's Report, p. 241, pi. 38, fig. 122. 



" Salmon, Thompson's Hist, of Vermont, p. 140. 

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2. Salmo fontinalis, Mitchill. 



Above pale brown ; a large number of circular yellow spots, varying in their size, often 

 having in their centres a brig lit red spot; sometimes, the yellow color surrounding them 

 having partially disappeared, they seem distinct from the circular spots. In some specimens, 

 but three or four red spots are observable, while in others are seen twenty or more. Gill 

 covers golden, with fuliginous. Scales very small, those on the lateral line largest. 



D. 11. P. 13. V. 8. A. 11. C. 19. Length, 8 to 14 inches. 



Maine, Massachusetts, 'Storer. Connecticut, Linsley, Ayres. A^ermont, Thomp- 

 son. New York, Mitchill, Dekay. Pennsylvania, Dekay. Ohio, Kirtland. Laki 

 Huron, Rich. 



