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that this fish is peculiar to the rivers in that county, 

 and that it is not found in the northern districts of 

 Scotland. This we take upon us to deny, for on the 

 Tay and Earn we have captured it repeatedly, and 

 noticed that it differed in many points from the sea 

 trout and whitling, especially in the formation of the 

 tail, which in the salmo trutta is not forked as it is in 

 the herling. It is our opinion with regard to it, judg- 

 ing from the many characteristics which it possesses in 

 common with the salmo salax, that it is undoubtedly 

 that fish in a progressive stage ; and in this we are the 

 more confirmed, because we have noticed that it does 

 not, like the sea trout, ascend our rivers for the pur- 

 pose of spawning, but merely from natural instinct., or 

 to get rid of the sea-louse. We shall not extend our 

 remarks upon this subject, but leave it to the discus- 

 sion of more practised ichthyologists, merely remark- 

 ing, that as to the sea trout, whitling, and grey sewin, 

 technically called by naturalists the salmo trutta, salmo 

 albus, and salmo eriox, they are merely varieties of one 

 species, as the salmo salax itself has its varieties, and 

 these more strikingly marked, and easier distinguished 

 one from another, than the above-mentioned fish. For 

 instance, the river Shin, in Sutherlandshire, hath its 

 three varieties of salmon, one ascending the main branch, 

 another its tributary, the Orrin, and the third its tribu- 

 tary, theRasay for a further description of which, con- 

 sult the evidence before the Parliamentary Committee 

 on salmon fisheries. 



Among the rarer sorts of fish which inhabit our 

 Scottish waters, have been found the char, both the 

 case and torgoch, or red char, the vendace, and the 

 guiniad, or pollock. 



The first of these, the char, although we have class- 

 ed it with the more unfrequent kinds of fish, is only 



