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flesh white; common in every brook whose waters are clear and 

 rapid. 



S. punctatus, Cuv.; S. alpinus, Bl. 104, but not the alpinus of 

 Lin.; the Carpione of the lakes of Lombardy? Dotted with 

 small black and red points; flesh delicious; it is found all round 

 the Alps. 



S. marmoratus, Cuv. Irregular close brown spots and streaks, 

 so intermixed as to resemble a kind of marbling. See; from the 

 lakes of Lombardy. Naturalists are more united in separating 

 the 



S. salvelinus, L.; Meidinger, 19, under the name of alpinus; 

 Truite rouge; the Charr of the English. Red spots on the flank; 

 orange abdomen; anal and pectorals red, their first ray thick 

 and white. 



S. alpinus, L. ; Bl., 99; Meidin., 22, under the name o{ salveli- 

 nus. Nearly the same colours; but the first rays of the inferior 

 fins are not distinguished . This species fills the mountain lakes 

 of Lapland, See, and constitutes an invaluable supply of food to 

 the inhabitants of that country during the summer. 



There is another small trout found in European rivers, the 

 Sahnlet of the English; Saumoneau of the Rhine; Penn. 111. Brit. 

 Zool., pi. lix, 1, which many consider a distinct species. The 

 greenish of the back and the white of the belly form zigzags, in 

 each of which is a red spot; it is a small, but delicious fish. 



S. umhla, L.; Bl., 101. Smaller scales and finer teeth than in 

 either of the others; the spots more strongly marked and fre- 

 quently wanting; flesh fatter and white, resembling that of an 

 Eel. The Umbla of the lake of Geneva is particularly cele- 

 brated.(l) 



OsMERus, Artedi. 



Two ranges of separated teeth in each palatine, but only a few in 

 front on the vomer; the general form is that of a Trout, but there 

 are only eight rays in the branchiae. The body is immaculate, and 



(1) Besides these Salmons and Trouts which are found in Europe, several 

 others have been described by American and Russian naturalists, but they have 

 not been sufficiently compared with the former, so that even Pallas expresses 

 doubts with respect to some of his species. We will endeavour to settle their 

 synonymes in our Ichthyology, but the extent of the details requisite for that pur- 

 pose prevents us from attempting it herej we shall also in that work describe 

 several species from North America, some of which have been pointed out by 

 Mitchill, Lesueur, Rafinesque, Richardson, &c. 



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