194 



longitudinal bands. The general colour of 

 the body, light-yellow brown, beautifully 

 varied with golden, copper, green, and blue 

 reflections, when viewed in different lights, 

 with a few decided dark spots : the head 

 brown; on the cheeks and gill-covers a tinge 

 of blue: all .the fins somewhat darker than 

 the colour of the body ; the dorsal-fin varied 

 with square dusky spots on the membrane 

 between the rays, the upper part of the fin 

 spotted and streaked with reddish brown. 

 The grayling appears to become darker by 

 age, and the pectoral fins are reddish about 

 spawning time, with small black spots. 



The chapters Sir H. Davy has written so 

 carefully about this fish will, if judiciously con- 

 densed, be found useful and interesting to our 

 readers. They contain much that relates to 

 the natural history of the fish, and to the mode 

 of angling for it. Leintwardine, near Ludlow, 

 was a favourite piscatory resort of Sir Hum- 

 phrey's, and he is of opinion, that there is no 

 stream in England more productive of grayling 

 than that water is. The Dove would be, were 

 it not for those infernal prowlers, the poachers 

 of the neighbourhood of Ashborne. The 

 grayling requires a number of circumstances 

 in a river, to enable it to multiply. The Dove 

 possesses those circumstances, namely, a tern- 



