The Californian Salmon. 47 



whatever the variety of salmon, it is likely 

 that the habits and even the flavour of the 

 fish will soon come to be what the climate, 

 food, and other circumstances will make them. 

 It is a known fact that, in some of the Scottish 

 rivers, certain tributaries produce much finer 

 trout than others ; the difference being so 

 marked that an experienced fisherman will, 

 at a glance, tell the stream in which the fish 

 has been caught. 



After this work was in type, I found in the 

 January number of the proceedings of the 

 Societe d' ' Acclimatation for the year 1878, a 

 short paper by M. Eaveret-Wattel on the Cali- 

 fornian salmon, which gives some valuable in- 

 formation, a portion of which I have translated 

 for insertion here. M. Eaveret-Wattel states 

 that : — 



"Besides having well-marked specific cha- 

 racters, the Californian salmon is distinguished 

 from the Atlantic species by some differences 

 in its habits, but above all by a special apti- 

 tude for living in a much warmer climate. 

 We know indeed that the Salmo salar — of 

 which the abundance in the North gradually 

 diminishes as we go South, beginning say 



