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Tin: (iKowi.KK. 



(frtjttt* Satmonitltt — Auctori m. Tiik Wiiitk Salmon— Smith's ilistor}' of 

 Virjpniji. Tiik Thout — C'aruliiin Proviiu'iAlisiiK 



This fish, in f;;cneral t'onii, clusily corrcsiiDnds with that last 

 (IrsiTihiil. It lias the same jxibhous hack, with the lateral line 

 foUowinj;; tlie (loi*sal curve, ami the same protruded lower jaw. 

 Its teeth are luinutely in hroad hands or patches. The oprr- 

 nilitm has two moderate points. 



Its colour is deep greenish brow n, w ith a l)luish black spot on 

 the jjoint of the operruUtm. When yonnjr it has twenty-five or 

 thirty lon^'itudinal brownish bands, which bceoine cd'accd by 

 age. 



The first dorsal fin has ten spines; the seeoud, thirteen or 

 fourteen sort rays ; the pectorals, sixteen soft rays ; the vcntrals, 

 one spine and five soft rays ; tlu- anal three spines and eleven 

 or twelve soft rays; the caudal tin, which is sligjitly lunate, has 

 seventeen soft rays. 



There may, perhaps, be two distinct varieties of this fish. It 

 ha.H been taken in the waters of western New \ork, in the 

 Wabash in Indiana, and abundantly in Carolina, \«here it 

 attains to the length of two feet, and is considered an excellent 

 fi.nh, passing, a.s well as another fish of tlie same family, the 

 C'an)lina Wiak Fish {Otolithus ('tiroUnen»ijt), under the misnomer 

 of Trout. I am inclined to believe that this fish is also known 

 n.H the Welchman in the iidand waters of North Carolina. 



Before passing on to the next .H|)ccies I will observj- that 1 



