THE SEA-TROUT OR SALMON-TROUT. 1 



HE Sea-Trout, the last of our Silver or 

 Migratory species, has been identified 

 with the Salar of the Moselle, so named 

 by Ausonius in the fourth century 



" Purpureisque Salar stellatus tergore guttis." 



In habits also it closely resembles the Salar, or 

 true Salmon, of modern ichthyologists, and is in- 

 cluded in all statutory restrictions affecting this 

 fish or the Bull-Trout. 



It is the only one of the Migratory species which 

 is likely under any circumstances to be confounded 

 with the Yellow Division of Trout or rather with 

 the Salmo fario ; but the difference in colour be- 

 tween the two fish the one being silver and the 

 other golden is usually too obvious to admit of 

 doubt. It occasionally happens, however, that the 

 Sea-Trout, especially when confined for a long time 



1 Salmo trutta. Trutta^ trout, Lat. 



