YUUNG SALMON, A I'AIM:. 75 



In the presence of the l)lui.sli-};rey or olive transverse bands 

 alludeil to above, ami tij^ured in tlic cut of Pinks, at the head of 

 this article ; as also again in the plate at the head of that on the 

 Brook Trout {Satmo Fontinatijt), next followiu}^. 



ConccrnJnj^ this little li>li, tiuiL' has been a eontiniial duuht, 

 and a dispute of uiany years' standing, some persons maintain- 

 ing that it was a distinct and ri productive species of the 

 SalmunliUc, wliii-h they tcrnu'd variously Parr, Samlet, IJrand- 

 ling, and so forth ; others, from its never being taken of any 

 size, Imve believed it to be an unproductive cross, or mule, 

 between the Salmon and the Common Trout, the Sea Trout and 

 Common Trout, &c., &c. ; and others yet again, that it was 

 neither more nor less than a young Salmon. 



In proof of this, it was adduced that I'ai r had been niarkeil 

 ami retaken as Grilse. 



Hut in reply, it was stated that Parr hatl also been marked 

 and retaken as Mull Trout [Saf/zio Eriox), and Salmon Trout 

 {Sulino Trntta) ; whence it was argued that the fish marked had 

 been marketl carelessly and injudiciously, and were not Parr 

 at all, but Snndts, or fry of some of the other Salmonulu'. Mr. 

 Yarrel admits that he has seen these vertical marks in tin- 

 young of the Salmon, Bull Trout, Parr, Conunon Trout, and 

 Welsh Charr; but still maintains the existence of the Parr as 

 distinct, principally on the ground that the Parrs are taken 

 abundantly even in autumn, not exceeding live inches in length, 

 long after the fry nf the larger migratory species have gone 

 down to the sea. 



This is in the hotly of the \*<»rk, written pri\ious to the 

 experiments made by Mr. Shaw, and this Mr. ^;lrr^l tlure 



