118 THE COMMON TROUT. 



The usual weight of the Silfver-Lax was from seven to 

 nine pounds. I have, however, killed this fish of four- 

 teen pounds weight, which is the largest I have ever heard 

 of, but not of less than from three to four pounds weight. 



We never took many of these fish : four or five was 

 my best day's sport. When hooked, it shows much play, 

 and plays, moreover, so differently from other species 

 of Salmo jagging the line, as it were that without 

 actually seeing it, I knew almost to a certainty what fish 

 was on the hook. 



The Common Trout (Oring, Sw. ; S. Fario, Linn.) was 

 found in my vicinity; as also, by all accounts, in almost 

 every lake and river from Scania to Lapland. But as 

 Ekstrom does not enumerate it amongst the fishes of 

 the eastern Skargard, it is not, I apprehend, even a casual 

 visitor to salt or rather brackish water. 



According to Nilsson, there are two species of the com- 

 mon trout in Scandinavia namely : 



1 . The S. Fario, Linn. ; (Bdckro ; Stenbit ; Stqnoring, 

 Sw. ; so called from its chiefly inhabiting stony brooks), 

 which the Professor describes as from six to eight inches 

 in length, and as never being found in the alpine 

 regions. 



2. And the S. punctatus, Cuv. (Fjalloret ; Fjdlloring, 

 Norw.), which he states to be twelve inches in length, and 

 as being confined chiefly to the rivers and lakes of the Fjalls. 



The common trout attains to a considerable size in 

 the peninsula; for, if I mistake not the fish, I myself 

 have killed it of eleven pounds weight not, it is true, in 

 the vicinity of Ronnum, but in a tributary of the Clara in 

 Wcrmeland. 



