GRAYLING. 



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ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



SALMON ID jE. 



THE GRAYLING. 



Thymallus vulgaris, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 306. 



„ „ WiLLUGHBY, p. 187, N. 8. 



Salmo thymallus, Linnsus. Bloch, pt. i. pi. 24. 



,, „ Grayling, Penn. Brit. Zool, vol. iii. p. 414, pi. 72. 



„ „ „ Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 88. 



Coregonus ,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 181, sp. 49. 



Generic Characters. — Head and body elongated ; the sides marked with lon- 

 gitudinal bands; two dorsal fins, the first much longer than high, with numerous 

 rays ; the second small, adipose, without rays : the mouth small, the orifice 

 square ; the teeth very small ; branchiostegous rays 7 or 8. 



The Grayling, though abundant in some streams, 

 is yet a very local fish. Similar in many respects to the 

 Trout in its habits and wants, there are numbers of rivers 

 abounding with Trout that do not produce Grayling. In 

 the southern counties of Hampshire and Wiltshire, the 

 Grayling is found in the Test and both the Avons. In 

 Herefordshire, in the Dove, the Lug, the Wye, and the 

 Irvon. In Shropshire, in the Teme and the Clun. In 

 Staffordshire, in the Hodder, the Trent, the Dove, and the 



