154 SALMONID.f;. 



SALMON TROUT. 



SEA TROUT.— WHITE TROUT. 



Salmo Trutta — Yarrel. 



This beautiful fisli, which is the Salmon Trout of the Thames, 

 the Sea Trout of Scotland, and the White Trout of Wales, 

 Devonshire, and Ireland, is found nowhere on the continent of 

 America except on the eastern side of the Province of New 

 Brunswick and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



It must on no account be confounded, as it has been by 

 Dr. Smith in his " Fishes of Massachusetts," with the Brook 

 Trout {Salmo Fontinalis), when they run down and remain per- 

 manently in salt water, as tliey do, more or less, along the 

 whole south side of Long Island, but especially at Fireplace, at 

 Waquoit Bay, on Cape Cod, and probably at many other points 

 along the eastern coast ; for the fish are totally distinct, as will 

 be shown hereafter. 



" It is distinguished," says Yarrel, " by the gill-cover being 

 intermediate in its form between that of the Salmon and the 

 Bull Trout. The posterior free margin is less rounded than that 

 of the Salmon, but more so than that of the Bull Trout. The 



