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INDEX 



Sea-trout, weather, 150 

 weight, 38, 48, 49, 50 

 whitling (q-v.), 9, 104, 108, 113, 115, 

 119-135, 139 

 Sea-trout fishing, common law of Scotland, 8 



Crown's rights in Scotland, 7 

 Sewen, 38, 62 

 vSlob trout, 24, 25 

 Smelts, 9, 67 (note), 91-116, 206 

 salmon, 100-107, n'l ii4> ^^5 

 sea-trout, age at time of descent, 105-113 

 capture illegal, 92 

 colouration, loi, 104 

 Dahl, 92, 108-110 

 descent, 104, 105 

 description, 104 

 distinctions tabulated, 102-104 

 distinguished from salmon, 100, loi 

 estuarial habit, 114 

 fins, 101, 104 



Hiiitfeldt-Kaas, 93, 102-104 

 lochs, influence of, iii, 144-147 

 migration, scale evidence, 105, 108-112 

 migratory instinct dormant, 112 

 " parr marks," 101, 104 

 scales, loi, 104, 105, 108-112 

 shoal habit, 113 • 

 size, loi, 104, 115 

 spots, 101, 104 



statutoiy definition, 9, 67 (note), 206 

 tail, 101, 104 

 vigour (Cha3^or), 96 

 Spawning period, 159-176 

 annual function, i6(>-i76 

 ascent, 14S 

 barren fish, 160 

 cross-breeding, 163, 164 

 dress, 50, 61, 159, 160 

 duration, 164, 165 

 effects on fish, 165 

 kelts, 132, 165-169 

 capture illegal, 132, 166 

 mortality, 165, 166 

 months, 153-155 

 ' ova, 161, 162 

 process described, 160-163 

 redds, 161, 163 



disturbance illegal, 92 (note), 165 

 season, 14S, 153-155 

 vSplash nets, 149 

 vStuart, Hamish, Hcbridean trout, 25 



Salmoiiidcr, original habitat, 32 

 Stewart, Charles, Scottish law of fishing, 7 



Systematic Arrangement of the l-'ishes of 

 the Family Salmonida', The, C. Tate 

 Regan, iS 



Systematists and morpliologists, 12-14 



Tail, bull trout, contrasted with sea-trout, 

 40-42, 63 

 parr, 96, 98 



salmon contrasted with trout, 54 

 salmon contrasted with sea-trout, 54, 55 

 smolts, 55, 101, 104 

 Tailless trout, 42 

 " Tay bull trout," 40, 49, 175 

 Teeth, 57, 60 

 Teleostei, sub-class, 18 

 Teratology of Fishes, The, Dr. James F. 



Gemmill, 77 

 Thomson, John, Howietoun experiments, 22 

 Thymallus, genus, ig 

 Tidal trout, 24-27, 34 



Treatise on the Law of Scotland relating to 

 the Rights of Fishing, Charles Stewart, 



7 

 Trout, age, 49 



bull-nosed, 42 



classification, 12, 17-19, 42, 206-208 

 Salnio fario, one species (Malloch), 17 

 Sahno tnitta, one species (Regan), 16 



Clyde, 34 



colouration, 33, 34, 35, 50, 51, 52, 59, 93-96 



cross-breeding, 15, 23, 36, 163, 164 



defomiities, 42 



distribution, 28, 47 



eggs, 71, 72, 74-76, 78, 79, 192, 194, 19S 



estuarine, 24-27, 34 



fi"-"^' 53. 95 



" Fordidge," 41 



fiy, 76, 78, 79, 83, 84, 198 



Hcbridean, 24, 25, 27, 28 



hybrid (Stuart), 25 



I.och Ix>mond, 27, 34, 37, 52, 100 



marine origin, 28, 29 



maxillary, 55 



New Zealand, 24 



Orkney and vShetlaud, 24, 26, 28 



Pacific, 19 



" parr-marked," 94 



salmon, distinguished from (Regan), 54, 



55 

 scales, 54, 61 

 sea-trout, no structural differences from 



(Regan), 17, 20, 59, 97 



