FISHES. _ ABDOMINALES. 25. 26. 103 



ORDER IV. ABDOMINALES. ABDOMINAL, 

 25. COBITIS. Loche. 



, Barbatula. Yellowish-grey, with dusky variations : 



fpotted, ig-rayed. 



90. C. T&nia. Yellowish-grey, with dusky spots : head 

 compressed, with a forked spine beneath each eye, 



and G beards 



26. SALMO. Salmon. 



91. S. Salar. Silvery-grey, with blackish or grey spots : 

 lower-jaw of the male ending in an incurved elonga- 

 tion : tail forked. 



Salmon. Br. Zool. t. 58. Shaw Zool. t. 102. 



Body 2-4 feet long, blackish in front and on the cheeks: ^wfmall, 

 iris silvery : jaws of the male more or lefs incurved : tongue with 

 6 or 8 recurved teeth : fleshy-fin and lateral-line black : ventral-fins 

 with an appendage at the bafe : darfal-fin i^-rayed ; federal 145 

 ventral 10- anal 13 ; caudal 2i-rayed. 



92. S. Eriux. Deep silvery-grey, with purplish-grey 

 spots : lower-jaw a little longer : tail nearly even. 



Shewen. Br. Zoo). ii\.p. 225. . 144. Donovan t.g\. 



Refembles the laft but is fmaller and the flesh is paler : jaws of 

 the male very slightly incurved ; belly silvery ; dorfal-fin fpotted r 

 the rays above the membrane, i2-rayed; pectoral 145 ventral 10 j 

 anal 12 ; tail 24-rayed. 



93- S. Trullu. Purplish-grey, with black drop-like spots 

 on the head body and dorsal-fin. 



Salmon Trout. Block \.p. 143. lab. ai. 



Body fmaller than the Salmon, covered with fmall round dusky 

 fpots furrounded by a paler circle : jaws equal : tail slightly cloven: 

 dorfal-fin i^-rayed; pectoral 14; ventral 9 ; anal 10; tail 20- 

 rayed. 



94. S. Fario. Yellowish-grey v whh purple or red spots: 

 lower-jaw a little longer than the upper. 



2. Stomach very large. Gillaroo Trout. Sow. Mifc. t. 61. 



Body about a foot long, narrow, olive above the lateral line, yel- 

 low beneath it, belly white : cheeks yellow and green : iris white, 

 with a femilunar blackish edge : fins purplish-yellow, the dorfal 

 fpotted, the fleshy-one brown feibt with red, the ventral with a 

 pointed appendage: dorfal-fin i3-rayed ; pectoral 13; ventral 9; 

 anal 9, edged with white : tail slightly forked, a^-rayed. 



95. S. Phinoc. Silvery-grey, willi very splendid belly ; 

 dorsal-fin spotted with black : tail black, forked. 



White Salmon. Penn. Brit. Zoo], in. p. 302. n. 14.7. 



Body about a foot long, of an. elegant form, with the back straight, 

 above dusky and silvery intermixed, beneath gf ajj exquisite silvery 



