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and forwarded them to me for examination. Externally both 

 fish presented the characteristics of true salmon, and upon 

 dissection the number of pyloric appendages was found to 

 be 62 in one and 65 in the other, numbers which prove these 

 specimens to have been salmon and not salmon-trout. This 

 capture, therefore, lends additional force to the presiunption 

 that the twenty-pound fish taken in tlie Plenty w^as a salmon. 



