14:2 HISTORY OF THE FISHES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



I stated in my Report, that I considered this fish to be the serrata, although I had 

 no means of ascertaining what that species was, having no works upon Ichthyology 

 which would assist me. Dr. Dekay, under date of June 7th, 1841, wrote me that I was 

 right in my supposition, as he had compared my specimen " directly with one he had 

 brought from Brazil some years ago." 



Massachusetts, Storer. Jamaica, Catesby. 



FAMILY XVI. SALMONID.F. 



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 sur- 

 prisingly. Almost all of them ascend rivers. 



GENUS I. SALMO, Lin. 



Head smooth ; teeth on the vomer, both palatine bones, and all the maxillary 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. 



Salmo salar, Lin. 



The Salmon. 

 (Plate XXV. Fig. 2.) 



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



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



" " Salmon, Pennant, Brit. ZoiJl., vm. p. 382. 



" '• Common Sea-Salmon, Shaw, Gen. Zool., v. p. 40, fig. 102. 



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



" « " Jentns, Brit. Vert., p. 421. 



" " " Griffith's Cuv., x. p. 416. 



" " " Fabrictus, Fauna Groenlandiea, p. 170. * 



" " Common Salmon, 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, 498. 



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



" " Salmon, Storer, Report, p. 104. 



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



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



" " " Storer, Mem. Amer. Acad., New Series, n. p. 444. 



" " " " Synopsis, p. 192. 



Salmo, Cuv. et Val., Nat. Hist, des Pois., xxi. p. 169. 



Color. This species is of a beautiful, brilliant silver-color above, lighter upon the 

 sides, white beneath ; many black blotches are observed upon the sides, which are much 



