CHAPTER XV 
THE BULL-TROUT AND THE SALMON-TROUT 
The Bull-Trout, or Sea-Trout—The Salmon-Trout, or White Trout—Habits 
—Angling for Salmon-Trout. 
Cominc now to consider the various species of trout, 
migratory and otherwise, we enter upon a group of species 
and varieties of extreme dubiety. While entertaining profound 
respect for systematic ichthyologists in general, and for Dr. 
Ginther in particular, | am quite unable to share his belief in 
the constancy of the ten species which he recognises among 
British trout, and I propose to deal with them as in three 
species only, noticing the principal of the numerous local or 
racial varieties of each. 
The Bull-Trout, or Sea-Trout (Sa/mo eriox) 
Fins. TEETH. 
As in the salmon. As in the salmon. 
In adhering to the title conferred by Linneus upon the 
largest of our migratory salmonoids except the true salmon, I 
am aware that I must incur adverse criticism from some modern 
ichthyologists, but I feel that it is safer to retain a term so long 
associated with a creature with which practical fishermen are 
perfectly familiar, rather than adopt one about the application 
of which there seems to be considerable uncertainty. So far 
as I have been able to follow the maze of description from 
the pens of many able writers, it has been proposed to give 
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