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SALMONID.E. 



The accompanying cut is of a female, fresh run from 

 the sea, and is copied, by permission, from the figure by 



Sonrel, in jNIr. Agassiz's great 

 work alluded to above. The 

 individual from which the figure 

 is taken was caught in the 

 neighbourhood of Havre- de- 

 Grace, in France ; but the Sal- 

 mon of the two continents are 

 identical. 



I will here observe, en passant, 

 that whenever it has been in my 

 poAver to obtain specimens, either 

 living or in spirits, I have myself 

 drawn the figures from nature on 

 the wood; but where, from the 

 season of the year, or other 

 causes, I have been unable to 

 obtain that advantage, I have 

 copied my illustrations from the 

 best authorities, where I could 

 find plates or drawings which 

 I deemed satisfactory. In the 

 absence of either, I have left the 

 fish unrepresented, in preference 

 to giving incorrect caricatures of 

 the animal — such as disgrace too 

 many works of natural history, 

 and, I am sorry to say, among 



