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recognition. Its scientific name is the Salmo trutta, 

 or salmon-trout, but its local names are very many 

 and very confusing. It is the same as the white 

 trout of Ireland, and the peal of Cornwall and 

 Devonshire; and although often confounded with 

 the bull-trout, is, in the opinion of many naturalists 

 and most practical anglers, quite a distinct species 

 from it. 1 Dr Giinther, however, in his Eeport to 

 the Tweed Fishery Commissioners, considers the 

 bull-trout only a variety of the Salmo trutta. The 

 bull-trout is often perhaps too often seen in the 

 Tweed, where it is known simply as " The Trout " ; 

 and in the Coquet and other rivers in the north-east 

 of England, where it commonly goes by the name of 

 " The Salmon." It feeds more readily and voraciously 

 than the salmon, and sometimes rivals that monarch 

 himself both in size and weight. Moreover, the 

 two are not unlike in appearance : indeed there is 

 such an apparent resemblance between them, that 

 in England, fishwives have been known to clip the 

 round tail of the bull-trout quite square, and sell it 

 for true salmon. But grilse and salmon on the one 

 hand, can be readily distinguished from salmon- 

 trout and bull-trout on the other, by the spots, 

 which in these latter fish, after the smolt stage, 

 invariably appear below the lateral line. Salmon 

 and grilse, in some very few cases, have one or two 

 1 Buckland's British Fishes, p. 322. 



