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into the air, and yielding to its fate only after an ex- 

 haustive conflict, in which it is aided by the size and great 

 muscular development of the fins, which are larger than 

 those of the Salmon. Like the Salmon, the Bull-Trout 

 ascends rivers to spawn, but somewhat sooner in the 

 season, the fry, as it is supposed, returning to the sea 

 correspondingly early. 



The cut at the head of this notice was engraved from a 

 full-grown male fish of 32 inches in length, from which 

 also the descriptive characteristics at pages 301 and 305-6 

 were taken. The figure below gives a representation of a 

 younger fish, in which it will be observed that the tail-fin 

 is hardly square at the end, whilst in the adult specimen 

 it is convex. 



The Bull-Trout is far from being as common in this 

 country as the Salmon or Sea-Trout. Probably it is 

 better known in the Tweed than in any other river, being 

 there as abundant as either of the other two species but 

 the Tweed is in this respect exceptional. 



Amongst other localities, the Bull-Trout is known to 

 exist in the streams of Devonshire and Cornwall, in the 

 Severn, in several of the rivers of South Wales (where it 



