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Mary, thus mentions the bull trout of his native 

 county : " Trutta taurina, apud nos in Northum- 

 bria, ab insigni magnitudine." Dr. Walter Charle- 

 ton, whom I should take, from his name and the 

 expression, " apud nos in Northumbria," the same 

 as Dr. Turner's, to be of the same county, in his 

 Onomasticon Zoicon, 1668, notices it in the follow- 

 ing manner: " Trutta Taurina. With us in North- 

 umberland, a Bull-Trout, from its great size ; In 

 some counties, a Grey Trout; in others, a Skurf." 



4. Salmo Trutta. The salmon trout. Of similar 

 color and spots to the bull trout and the salmon. 

 Has ten or eleven rays in the anal fin, the same as 

 the bull trout, and observes the same migrations. 

 It is the Trutta Salmoneta of Willoughby , who says 

 that it is also called the Skurf and the Bull-trout ; 

 and that it differs from the salmon in being less, 

 seldom exceeding twenty inches in length, its tail 

 not being forked, and its flesh not being red as in 

 the salmon ; and from the grey, in also being less, 

 and in having a shorter and thicker head. The 

 flesh is also more rank, and not so pleasant as that 

 of the grey. He adds : " of the salmon trout there 

 are many varieties, well known and distinguished 

 by our fishermen, who also are well acquainted 

 with the months in which each makes its appear- 

 ance ; though I dare not venture to affirm them to 

 be of different species/' De Hist. Piscium, lib. 4, 

 p. 193. 



5. Salmo Albus. The Whitling, Herling, or Phi- 

 nock. Comparatively of a thinner form and more 

 compressed than the salmon, lighter colored on the 

 back than the salmon trout ; the lower part of the 



