136 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SALMON. 



3739" Are they ovoviviparous? Hardly that ; but still 

 the eggs are hatched very rapidly. 



3740 Do the salmon feed upon the embryo? I should 

 imagine they must do so to a certain extent. A salmon 

 can only feed upon these small creatures by opening his . 

 mouth and taking what comes into it. Those who have' 

 examined *he stomachs of salmon fresh from the sea, 

 affirm that they contain great multitudes of minute 

 crustacese. 



31&1 There is nothing in the nature of the food of 

 salmon to confine them to the immediate vicinity of the 

 shore? I should say not, so far as I am aware. 



3742 EARL CAWDOR: Do these crustacese deposit 

 their ova at the bottom of the sea? It is those crus- 

 tacese themselves which are the prey of the salmon, and 

 not the ova. They are very minute animals, and very 

 abundant; and the most of them carry their eggs about 

 with them. 



3743 Are the ova of the echinidse deposited upon the 

 bottom of the sea? They may be so deposited for a 

 short .time; we have no positive evidence that salmon 

 feed particularly upon them, but we know that they 

 feed upon these entomostracse or small crustaceae. 



3744 LORD LOVAT : Is a foul salmon long in getting 

 clean after he gets into the sea? I am not aware; I 

 think it would be very difficult to ascertain that point 

 in any way.* 



* See the Duke of Athole's Experiment. 



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