32 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



were got into the hatching-boxes the same 

 evening, except one layer of about 7000, 

 which were left under the ice until next 

 morning. About 6 per cent, of dead eggs 

 were taken out at once, but many were ad- 

 hering in clusters, most of which I knew could 

 not live, but which looked healthy enough at 

 the time. 



The next morning over 100 young salmon 

 were hatched, and they were lively little 

 fellows even at that early stage of their 

 existence. When touched with a feather, 

 they would start off and swim round in a 

 circle, and settle down again amongst the 

 gravel. On the remainder of the ova being 

 transferred to the hatching-boxes, numbers of 

 young fish were found to have hatched out 

 during the night, and during the day 400 or 

 500 made their appearance. 



The ovum of the Californian salmon is 

 larger than that of the British species. The 

 young fish is about an inch long. The 

 umbilical sac attached to it, containing the 

 yolk of the egg, is of a clear, transparent red 

 colour, and seems quite as large as the egg 

 from which it has emerged. This sac contains 



