THE SAURY PIKE. 501 



The Saury Pike, or Skipper (Makrill-Gddda, Sw. ; 

 Makrel-Gjedde, Dan., both meaning mackerel-pike ; Scom- 

 beresox Camperi, Lacep.). Of this fish one specimen has 

 lately been taken off the Swedish coast, in the Sound, 

 near Malmo. It has also once been captured near 

 Christiania, in Norway. Kroyer mentions, on the autho- 

 rity of Reinhardt, two instances of its being met with 

 off the Danish coast in the Sound. Both of the last-named 

 specimens, as also one from the south of Iceland, are 

 now in the Copenhagen Museum. This fish bears a con- 

 siderable resemblance to the common Gar-Pish, but the 

 dorsal and anal fins are divided into small finlets, as 

 in the Mackerel. Length, fourteen to fifteen inches ; 

 weight, about half a pound. 



Of the Salmonidte, regarding which, as it strikes me, 

 naturalists, both at home and abroad, still seem very 

 much in the dark, I spoke pretty fully in my last book ; 

 that is, of the several species that more or less inhabit the 

 inland waters of the Peninsula. I there made mention of 

 the Smelt, which fish, as shown, thrives just as well in 

 fresh as in salt water ; of two species of Charr ; of the 

 Salmon ; of the Salmon Trout ; of the Bull Trout ; of the 

 Common Trout ; and of two large species of Lake Trout. 

 I also described six several species of the Coregoni that 

 came under my personal observation, all of which, as 

 well as the two large Lake Trout just spoken of, will be 

 found beautifully and faithfully depicted in "Scandinavian 

 Adventures."* But only two or three of these fishes have 



* Dr. Giinther, in his recent work, " Catalogue of the Fishes of the 

 British Museum," vol. vi. p. 189, has, I observe, characterized the drawing 

 of one of the Coregoni, the Lof-sik, Sw., as being "not good." Such 

 may be the fact ; but if so, it is somewhat singular, because one and all of 

 them were depicted by Mr. Alexander Fussell, one of our first artists, from 

 large and fresh Specimens preserved in spirits ; and that, moreover, in my 

 own room, and under the eye of the late Mr. Yarrell, the eminent naturalist, 

 who was capable, it is to be presumed, to judge of their correctness. 



