30 ART OF ANGLING. 



GREYLING. 



THE Greyling is an elegant fish, and when 

 full grown is about sixteen inches in length ; it 

 chiefly abounds in the rivers of Derbyshire and 

 Yorkshire, in the Teme near Ludlow, and in the 

 Lug and other streams near Leominster. In 

 shape it resembles the Trout, but is rather more 

 slender, particularly near the tail ; its colour is 

 a beautiful silvery grey, with numerous longi- 

 tudinal dark stripes ; the scales rather large ; 

 the head, fins, and tail, are of a brownish cast, 

 and the tail forked. The largest Greyling 

 ever caught in England was taken at Ludlow ; 

 it measured above half-a-yard in length, and 

 weighed four pounds eight ounces. 



The Greyling is a very swift swimmer, disap- 

 pearing like the transient passage of a shadow, 



