404 SAMLET SALMON. Class IV. 



Grayling, which has none on its tongue. The 

 back was dusky ; the sides tinged with a pur- 

 plish bloom, marked with deep purple spots, 

 mixed with black, above and below the side line 

 which was strait; the belly white. The first 

 dorsal fin was spotted ; the spurious fin brown, 

 tipped with red ; the pectoral, ventral, and 

 anal fins, of a pale brown ; the edges of the 

 anal fin white ; the tail very little forked when 

 extended. 



6. Samlet. LeTacon? Belon. S'Jb. Salmoneta, a Branlin. Ray's 



Salmulus, Herefordice Samlet Letters, 199. 



dictus. JVil. Ichth. 192. Le Salmone rille. De la Ce- 



Salmulus, the Samlet Here- pede Hist, des Poissons, v. 



Jbrdiensihis, Branlin et Fin- 226. ? 



gerin Eboracensihus. Raii 



Syn.pisc. 63. 



X HE samlet is the lest of the salmon kind, is 

 frequent in the Wye, in the upper part of the 

 Severn, and the rivers that run into it, in the 

 north of England, and in Wales. It is by se- 

 veral imagined to be the fry of the salmon ; but 

 our reasons for dissenting from that opinion are 

 these : 



First, It is well known that the salmon fry 

 never continue in fresh water the whole year; 

 but as numerous as they appear on their first 



