SAL MO. 



yellow to the belly and fins, which become hered- 

 itary characters." 



Like the adult children of one family, one is 

 tall, another is a dwarf, a third is fat, a fourth has a 

 dark complexion, a fifth has red hair, a sixth blue 

 eyes, the seventh excellent front teeth, the 

 eighth good grinders, but imperfect incissors, the 

 ninth is lean, and the tenth differs from all the rest 

 and yet they sprang from the same parents, 

 the same blood circulates in their veins, at one ta- 

 ble they subsist on the same food, and still no 

 two present the same external character, but why 

 they do not, is a mystery wholly beyond elucida- 

 tion ; such is precisely the case with the fresh wa- 

 ter or semi-marine trouts. 



England is famous for its trout, and for the va- 

 riety too, but after all, we have in the United 

 States an equally imposing catalogue, under differ- 

 ent names. 



But to the point ; the common trout of Mas-: 

 sachusetts is from eight to twelve inches long, 

 dotted on the back, with brownish spots, shaded 

 by a paler circle. On the gill covers is a broad 

 spot ; the under jaw is the longest ; the soft rayed 

 fins tinged with yellow, and on the sides of the 

 body are red spots. 



HUNCHEN TROUT, Salmo Hucho. Resem- 



