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LAKES AND STREAMS 



Neagh, together with several other kinds, are British representatives of this group. 

 They are silvery, herring-like fishes. 



Another member of the family is the well-known and handsomely 

 coloured grayling (Thymallus vulyaris), which inhabits swiftly 

 flowing small rivers all over Europe, and is found in the River Reuss in 

 Switzerland at a height of three thousand feet, and in the Inn at five thousand 



Grayling. 



THE fiRATLING. 



feet above the level of the sea. It is distinguished by the unusual size of its 

 long, many-rayed dorsal tin, the body being striped longitudinally. In North 

 America and northern Asia the grayling is represented by other kindred species. 



A small member of the salmon tribe, characterised by the 

 absence of spots on the body, is the smelt (Osmerus eperlanus), 

 which dwells near the coast in the northern parts of the Atlantic Ocean, and 



Smelt. 



THE SMELT. 



ascends most of the estuaries of the rivers in spring for the purpose of spawning. 

 Although unknown in the Ehine, it inhabits some of the lakes of northern 

 Germany, remaining permanently in fresh water without ever journeying to the sea. 



