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been taken with a fly made of red feathers ; and he will rise 

 at a fly not unlike a gnat or a small moth, or indeed at most 

 flies that are not too big. He is a fish that lurks close all 

 winter, but is very pleasant and jolly after mid-April, and in 

 May, and in the hot months. He is of a very fine shape; his 

 flesh is white; his teeth, those little ones that he has, are in 

 his throat ; yet he has so tender a mouth that he is oftener 

 lost after an angler has hooked him than any other fish. 

 Though there be many of these fishes in the delicate River 

 Dove, and in Trent, and some of the smaller rivers, as that 

 which runs by Salisbury, yet he is not so general a fish as 

 the trout, nor to me so good to eat or to angle for, and so I 

 shall take leave of him." 



" Genus Thymallus, Cuvier. Of this genus the grayling 

 (Thymallus vulgaris) is the type. The fish is common in 

 some of our streams, but is a local species. It differs chiefly 

 from the trouts or salmons in having the mouth less deeply 

 cleft, the orifice square, the anterior dorsal very high, and 

 the scales larger." Penny Cyclopaedia. 



In France the grayling is classified with the genus Ombre 

 (umber), of which there are several families in the streams 

 of Europe ; and the Ombre commune, or grayling, is charac- 

 terized by a very small, square mouth, like that of the smelt 

 or the mullet, but provided with numerous infinitesimal teeth 

 far back in the mouth, on the roof or palate ; by scales, rath- 

 er large and very exactly placed, one lapping another ; by a 

 high and wide first dorsal fin, which commences much farther 

 forward than others of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo, 

 and by its close resemblance to the trout in internal confor- 

 mation. 



" The grayling, though sufficiently common in divers points 

 of France, is rarely seen in the markets of Paris. It is one of 

 those beautiful fishes of the fresh waters. Nothing so grace- 

 ful as its gradual elongated form from the front of its high 

 dorsal to its tail. Nothing is more elegant than its na- 

 geoire dorsal, a magnificent sail, very long, and of a remarka- 



