THE BULL-TROUT. 1 



|H E Bull-trout, also known as the Grey- 

 trout, Sewin, and Round-tail, is a 

 somewhat local fish, sparsely scattered 

 throughout several parts of the United 

 Kingdom, and probably more generally familiar to 

 the ichthyologist than to the fisherman. I believe 

 the lithograph illustrating this chapter to be the only 

 really accurate drawing of the fish ever published in 

 England, most of the representations with which I 

 am acquainted being strikingly unlike their proto- 

 type in almost every particular. It was taken from 

 a male fish of 8 Ibs. weight, in beautiful condition, 

 brought from the Tweed, a river in which the 

 bull-trout is more abundant and reaches to greater 

 perfection than in any other of these islands. The 

 total length of this specimen was 2 ft. 4 Jin., and 

 the girth of the shoulder, just behind the head, 



1 Salmo Eriox. Salmo, a Salmon or trout, Lat. ; eriox, 

 specific name. 



