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The second variety is commonly called a Norway 

 salmon, and sometimes a mongrel ; it has the 

 blunt and short head of the sea trout, with the 

 tapering tail and forked caudal fin of the salmon, 

 the scales and markings are also those of the bull 

 trout.i 



He also thinks that there are hybrids, between 

 salmon and bull trout. 



Mr. Mitchell, formerly Superintendent of 

 Tweed Water Bailiffs, says : " Salmon and bull trout 

 and their progeny. {Salmo salar and Sahno tnitta) . 

 (He makes no distinction between sea trout and 

 bull trout :) the fish in the Tay, called a bull trout, 

 bears not the slightest resemblance to the bull 

 trout of the Tweed." 



Mr. Thomas Stoddart of Kelso, the well-' 

 known author on angling, says: "i. Sa/mo salar. 

 2. Sahno eriox. 3. Salmo albuSy of which there are 

 two species, grey and white." 



Mr. Smurthwaite, Berwick, Superintendent of 

 Tweed Water Bailiffs, says : " Salmon proper — 

 Grilse, Bull trout or sea trout. There is a kind of 



Scotia, I particularly noticed this peculiarity and pointed it 

 out to several persons. (H.) 



^ A fish of this kind, weighing 28 lbs., was exposed for sale 

 at a fishmonger's in Bond Street. It was called a lax salmon, 

 but was really a bull trout, as shown by its shape and markings, 

 by the colourof its flesh — yellowish pink — and by the teeth. (H.) 



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