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SLENDER SALMON. 



Report of the Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic Society for 1859. 



Salmo Huclio, Fleming; British Animals, p. 189, whicli he 



makes the same with the Bull Trout. 

 Salmo gracilis, Nobis. 



In the Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 

 here referred to, is an account of the taking of a fish which, 

 in reliance on what Fleming has described of one exceedingly 

 similar, was referred to a species of Salmon known as a native 

 of the Danube by the name of Hue or Huech, and in Hungary 

 as Huho or Huhko; but since the publication of the paper on 

 the Cornish Salmonidse, as mentioned above, I have learnt from 

 Dr. Gunther that the characters assigned to our fish will not 

 apply to the Hucho of Germany and Linna3us; and that this 

 last-named species is not found anywhere even in Germany, 

 except in the Danube and its tributary streams; to which Dr. 

 Reisinger adds, that it is not common in any part of Hungary. 

 It is evident that the figure of the Hucho in the work of Bloch, 

 pi. 100, is not nearly like our fish; and the more indifferent 

 one copied by Willoughby from Gesner is still less like it. We 

 are therefore compelled to conclude that our fish, presently to 

 be described, must not be referred to any known species of the 

 continent of Europe. 



The example from which our figure and description were 

 taken was caught in the harbour of Fowey, in the month of 

 January; and it has since been sent to the British Museum. 

 But the figure was taken when it Avas fresh from the water, 

 and a copy of it was communicated to INIr. Yarrell; whose 

 opinion of it we give in justice to that gentleman, in his own 

 words: — "Many thanks for your drawing of the female Salmon 



