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pectoral fins narrow, and with the ventral and anal, of a 

 dusky hue ; the tail much forked. 



In the migratory trout the body is thick and short ; the 

 head and snout more rounded ; the dorsal fin often spotted ; 

 the pectoral broad, and with the ventral and anal orange- 

 colours ; the adipose fin tinged at the end a light orange ; 

 the tail but little forked. 



In the river or brook trout the body is long and not so 

 shapely ; the head short ; the snout very obtuse ; the eye 

 large ; the dorsal fin spotted ; the adipose fin with a scarlet 

 red tip ; the tail square, and but little forked. To the 

 inexperienced, and even to some of the experts, the ab- 

 solute certainty of the distinction is often a matter of 

 difficulty. 



Mr. Willis Bund (in " Salmon Problems ") writes : " I 

 recollect once hearing a man tried for taking samlets. He 

 was very well defended ; and the solicitor asked the witness, 

 who swore positively to the fish being a samlet, if he could 

 always identify a samlet from a trout. To my horror, the 

 witness said ' Yes.' l Are you sure ? ' ' Certain ; I could 

 not mistake.' Four bottles were then produced, marked A, 

 B, C, and D. In these were fish preserved in spirits. 

 The witness was asked, ' What was A ? ' ' Samlet.' < B ? ' 

 'Samlet.' 'C?' 'Trout/ ' D ?' ' Samlet ;' and he 

 stuck to it, and pointed out the distinctions to the Court. 

 For the defence, a witness was called who had bred the 

 fish and placed them in the bottles. They were all four 

 the same, and hybrids. I am bound to say that I was 

 very nearly falling into the trap myself, and should cer- 

 tainly have said the fish were not the same, only I con- 

 sidered D was the trout, and the other three samlets. It 

 is only, how r ever, very rarely that these cases occur ; 

 usually any person who has had any experience can tell a 

 samlet without any doubt." 



According to the Salmon Act of 1 86 1, the names given 

 or applied to the young of the salmon (S. salar) are : fry, 

 samlet, smolt, smelt, skirling or skarling, parr, spawn, pink, 

 last spring, kepper, last brood gravelling, shed, scad, blue 

 fin, black tip, fingerling, brandling, brondling, or by any 



