396 WHITE SALMON. Class IV. 



3. White. Le Salmone blanc. De la Cepede Hisl. des Poissons, v. 223. 



JL HIS species migrates out of the sea into the 

 river Esk in Cumberland from July to Septem- 

 ber, and is called from its color the Whiting. 

 When dressed, their flesh is red, and most deli- 

 cious eating. They have, on their first appear- 

 ance from the salt water, the lemcea salmonea, 

 or salmon louse, adhering to them. They have 

 both melt and spawn ; but no fry has as yet 

 been observed. This is the fish called by the 

 Scots, Phinocs. 

 Descrip- They never exceed a foot in length. The up- 

 per jaw is a little longer than the lower: in the 

 first are two rows of teeth ; in the last, one ; on 

 the tongue are six teeth. 



The back is strait ; the whole body of an ele- 

 gant form ; the lateral line is strait ; color, be- 

 tween that and the top of the back, dusky and 

 silvery intermixed ; beneath it, of an exquisite 

 silvery whiteness ; first dorsal fin spotted with 

 black ; tail black, and much forked. The first 

 dorsal fin has eleven rays ; pectoral, thirteen ; 

 ventral, nine; anal, nine. 



TION. 



