

BRITISH FISHES. 



ABDOmmAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



SALMONID^. 



THE SALMON. 



SMOLT, young. GRILSE, JiTst year. 



Salmo salar, Linn«us. 



,, „ Block, pt. i. pi. 20, female. 

 ,, ,, ,, pt. iii. pi. 98, male in autumn. 



,, ,, Salmon, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 382. 

 „ „ Flem. Brit. An. p. 179, sp. 40. 



Generic Characters. — Head smooth ; body covered with scales ; two dorsal 

 fins, the first supported by rays, the second fleshy, without rays ; teeth on the 

 vomer, both palatine bones, and all the maxillary bones ; branchiostegous rays 

 varying in number, generally from ten to twelve, but sometimes unequal on the 

 two sides of the head of the same fish. 



The Salmon is so well known for its quality as an arti- 

 cle of food, as well as for tlie immense quantities in which 

 it is taken, that it requires no other claims to recommend 

 it strongly to our notice ; and probably, in no country 



* The family of the Salmon and Trout. 

 VOL. II. B 



