Foul) UF TlIK SALMON. I ((I 



cipiil support. The >tomacli of the Sulmoii is, comparatively 

 spciikintr, small ; ami Sir Ilnmphri'V Davy asserts that, <Mit (•!' 

 many which he had openetl, he iie\er fuuml anything; in their 

 stomachs but the tape-worms hred there, ami some yellow Huiil- 

 This peculiarity iim-Nt, 1 think, be m a ;^reat mi-asnre attrihntcd 

 to their rapid dijjcstion. In this they ditler j^reatly from the 

 Salmon Tront, u liiih is constantly found stntl'i-d with fixjd of 

 all sorts, tin- ri-mains of small tish, heitles, inscets, and the 

 saud-hoppcr {Tulilris locusta), \\liieh would seem to be their 

 favourite food. 



Dr. Knox stutes that the food of the Salmon, and that on 

 which all its estimable ipudities and, in his opinion, its \ery 

 existence depends, and which the ti>h can only obtain in the 

 ocean, he has tuund to In- the o\a, or eg^s of various kimls of 

 vchinodermata, and some of the crust itiva. I'rom the richness 

 of the food on \\iiieh the true Salmon solely subsi>ts arises, at 

 lejist to ft certain extent, the excellent (luality of the tish as an 

 article of food. Something, however, must be aserilicd to a 

 siMJcific distinction of the fish itself; for though he has a>eer- 

 taimil that the Salmon Trout lives in some localities on very 

 much till- same kind of food as the true Salmon, yit under no 

 circumstances docs this fish t cr attain the same exipiisite 

 tlavuur as the true Salmon. 



Dr. I'leming states that their fa\ourite food is the sand-eel. 

 " I Inive myself," says Mr. Varrel, " taken the remains of the 

 sand-launce from their stomach." It i«t known, moreover, that 

 they are taken in Scotland by lines baited with thi> brilliant 

 and glitlcrin); little ti.Hh , as are the clean-nui tish, fre>h from 

 the sea, with the common earlh-Morm. Mr \ arrel mention"- 



