dQ,Q PISHES. 



the streams in the adjacent counties, is purchased at the rate of 

 ten pounds per annum. 



These fish shift their quarters to spawn ; and, like salmon, make 

 up towards the heads of rivers to deposit their roes. The under 

 jaw of the trout is subject, at certain times, to the same curvature 

 as that of the salmon. 



A trout taken in Llynallet, in Denbighshire, which is famous 

 for an excellent kind, measured seventeen inches, its depth three 

 and three quarters, its weight one pound ten ounces : the head 

 thick ; the nose rather sharp ; the upper jaw a little longer than 

 the lower; both jaws, as well as the head, were of a pale brown, 

 blotched with black : the teeth sharp and strong; disposed in the 

 jaws, roof of the mouth, and tongue, as is the case with the 

 whole genus, except the gwyniad, which is toothless, and the 

 grayling, which has none on its tongue. 



The back was dusky ; the sides tinged with a purplish bloom, 

 marked with deep purple spots, mixed with black, above and 

 below the line, which was straight : the belly white. 



The dorsal fin was spotted ; the spurious fiu brown, tipped with 

 red; the pectoral, ventral, and anal fins, of a pale brown; the 

 edges of the anal fin white : the tail very little forked when ex- 

 tended. 



[Shaw. Pennant, 



SECTION NIT'. 



Flying.Fish. 



Exocaetus exi liens. Lurer. 



The fishes of this genus, which are very few in number, are 

 remarkable for the extreme length and size of their pectoral fins, 

 by which they are enabled to spring occasionally from the water, 

 and to support a kind of temporary flight or continued motion 

 through the air, to the distance of two or three hundred feet ; when, 

 the fins becoming dry. they are again obliged to commit themselves 

 to their own element. The species at present to be described is 

 chiefly observed in the Mediterranean and Atlantic seas, where, 

 according to an ingenious naturalist, " it leads a most miserable 



