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sala?' (the Salmon), S.far'w (the Salmon trout), and S. trutia (the trout). 

 Of these, S. salar (Fig. 370) has the body long, the muzzle roundish, 



Fig 379. —The Voimg Salinun. 



but more so in llie male than in the female, the upper jaw provided 

 with a fossette, into which the point of the lower jaw penetrates ; the 



Fig. 38U. — Salraun, or I'arr, a year old. 



back is a slaty blue, the sides and lower part of the body of a silvery 

 diaphanous white, Avith great black spots scattered round the upper 

 part of the head, round the upper edge of the eye, and over the oper- 



