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SALMOlSllD.E. 



ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGIL 



SALMONIDjE. 



THE PARR, OR SAMLET. 



Salmo salmulus, Willughby, p. 192. 



Ray, Syn. p. 63, sp. 2. 

 ,, ,, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 404. 



This little fish, one of the smallest of the British Sal- 

 monidee, has given rise to more discussion than any other 

 species of the genus. Abounding in our Salmon rivers, 

 and conspicuous for those lateral marks which are now known 

 to be borne also for a time by the young of the Trout as 

 well as the fry of the other Salmonidte, and this fish always 

 appearing of small comparative size, it has frequently been 

 insisted upon as the young of the Salmon, and local regu- 

 lations have as generally been invoked for its preserva- 

 tion. 



The fry, however, of the different species of migratory 

 Salmonidte are even now probably accurately known only 

 to a few persons : their great similarity when very small 

 has so frequently deceived even those who have lived the 

 greater part of their lives on the Salmon river banks, that 



