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Adamson, Captain Holyoake, Major Howard and 

 the Colonel. The stomach was stuffed with cap- 

 lin, about fifteen or so, in various stages of diges- 

 tion. They were all carefully collected and plac- 

 ed with the intestines in one of Crosse & Black- 

 well's pickle bottles, filled up with good brandy, 

 and presumably taken back to England and pos- 

 sibly placed in some collection, where for all I 

 know, they may be to this day. I never heard 

 anything more of the incident. Since that day 

 I have opened many thousands of salmon taken 

 in the sea and in rivers and lakes. In those taken 

 in salt water I have found herrings, small mack- 

 erel, young sculpins, two kinds of shrimps one 

 very small, and on one occasion, two young floun- 

 ders, about three inches long, in the same fish. A 

 species of bluish colored sea worm is also occasion- 

 ally found. All of the above are rare exceptions, 

 but the regular every-day food seems to be caplin 

 and sand eels. In fresh water, I must say, that 

 practically they do not feed, because out of the 

 many thousands that I have examined, killed with 

 the fly, or by netting and spearing and in other 

 ways, only four contained visible food. This 

 was, in two specimens taken in July by angling, 

 in each one stone-fly, a greyish insect with yel- 

 low markings on the underparts and long wings, 

 total length about one and a half inch. In one 

 speared in November I found a portion of a 

 wood mouse with some of the hair and skin; one 



