THE OCEAN WORLD. 



salar (the Salmon), S.fario (the Salmon trout), and S. trutta (the trout). 

 Of these, 6*. salar (Fig. 370) has the body long, the muzzle roundish, 



Fig. 379. The Young Salmon. 



but more so in the male than in the female, the upper jaw provided 

 with a fossette, into which the point of the lower jaw penetrates ; the 



Fig. 380. Salmon, or Parr, a year old. 



back is a slaty blue, the sides and lower part of the body of a silvery 

 diaphanous white, with great black spots scattered round the upper 

 part of the head, round the upper edge of the eye, and over the oper- 



