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iu siz:e, — referring to the Fordwicli form in Kent, which attains 

 nearly to the weight of salmon ; to the Buddaghs of Lough 

 Neagh, 'in Ireland, some of which weighed nearly 301b. He 

 finally drew attention to the colour internally, or that of the flesh, 

 remarking upon having taken both the red and the white kind at 

 the same season iu two contiguous streams iu Cardiganshire, one 

 of which invariably produced the red and the other the white 

 variety. 



Turton admitted into the ' British Pauna,' 1807, the common 

 trout and the parr. Fleming, iu his ' History of British 

 Animals,' recognized the same, remarking of the Grillaroo variety 

 that when it feeds on shellfish the coats of its stomach acquire a 

 thickness causing it to resemble the gizzard of birds. Jeuyns, 

 in his 'Manual of British Yertebrate Animals,' 1835, recorded 

 the common trout with its variety the Grillaroo ; the great lake- 

 trout, /S'. ferox, which he believed to be identical with the ^S'. 

 lacustris of Berkenhout. Tarrell (' History of British Fishes,' 

 1836) at first admitted the parr or samlet, the common trout, 

 and great lake-trout, and, in a later edition, the Loch-Leveu 

 trout. Parnell, ia 1838, in his j)rize essay on the Fishes of the 

 Firth of Forth, gave the same as Tarrell did. Jardine, iu his 

 ' British Salmonidse,' figured the great lake-trout, the common 

 trout, and varieties. Thompson (' Natural History of Ireland,' 

 1856) gives the common trout, including the Grillaroo, which 

 variety he recorded having met with in most freshwater races, 

 and the great lake-trout. White, in the ' List of the Specimens 

 of British Animals in the British Museum' (1851), enumerated 

 the common trout and the great lake-trout. 



In 1865-66 Dr. Griinther bestowed a large amount of research 

 upon this family of fishes, and brought together a beautiful col- 

 lection of specimens in the British Museum ; and if I am unable 

 to agree with his conclusions, it must be remembered that the 

 Tasmanian experiment, so fatal to the validity of his reputed 

 species, did not commence until subsequent to the publication of 

 vol. vi. of the ' Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum.' 

 In it, in 1866, he described the following forms : — Salmo levenensis : 

 vertebrae 57 to 59, csecal appendages 49 to 90*. Salmo far io, var. 

 fario : vert. 59-60, C£ec. pyl. 33-46; var. ausonii: vert. 57-58, 

 esec. pyl. 38-47. Salmo ferox: vert. 56-57, caec. pyl. 43-49. 



* These numbers are distinctly recorded in the pages of the sixth vohime of 

 the ' Catalogue of the Pishes in the British Museum/ by Dr. G-iinther, as 

 existing in specimens present in the collection of that institution, 



