CYPRINOID SALMON. 73 



membrane four-rayed : scales middle-sized : colour 

 yellowish, tinged with brown on the back : abdo- 

 men silvery : dorsal, pectoral, and ventral fins pale 

 yellow: adipose fin, anal, and caudal brown: on 

 each side the body, a little beyond the gills, an 

 oval black spot, and a second at the base of the 

 tail. Inhabits the rivers of Amboina, and those of 

 South- America, and is in considerable esteem as a 

 food. 



UNSPOTTED SALMON. 



Salmo Immaculatus. S. corpore immaculato, pinna ani radii* 



duodecim. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 513. 

 Salmon with unspotted body, and twelve rays in the anal fin. 



NATIVE of the American seas : gill-membrane 

 four-rayed. 



CYPRINOID SALMON. 



Salmo Cyprinoides. S. niveus, pinnae dorsalis radiis anticif 

 elofigato-setaccis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 514. 



Snow-white Salmon, with the first rays of the dorsal fin setace- 

 ous and elongated. 



HABIT of the Cyprinus rutilus, but of a snow- 

 white colour : head flattened above : eyes pro- 

 tuberant : tail forked : gill-membrane four-rayed. 



