2G2 TIIE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



The following account of the Salmon, is extracted from 

 Dr. Baird's Cyclopaedia of the Natural Sciences : " The 

 Salmon is exceedingly abundant in all the northern 

 oceans. It is found in Prance, England, Germany, 

 Bohemia, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Iceland, and Green- 

 land. It exists also in Labrador and Canada, and down 



FIG. 38. 1, PILCTTAKD (Clupoa pilchanlus); 2, JTEHRING (Clupca 

 Harengus); 3, PIKE (Esox Lucius). 



the American coast to the Connecticut river, in latitude 

 41 deg., and either it, or a species so closely allied 

 as not to be distinguished except by close comparison, 

 abounds in the Arctic seas washing the northern shores 

 of the American continent. It does not frequent the 

 rivers falling into the Mediterranean, and, though it has 

 been stated to be the case, it does not occur in the 

 Persian Gulf, or the Caspian Sea. In entering the 

 mouths of rivers in order to spawn, the females are 



