156 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



cambricus of Griinther, is a migratory fish, 

 usually known as the "bull trout." It is 

 similar in habits to the salmon, but its flesh is 

 paler in colour and inferior in quality. It 

 is known asa" pink " or " orange fin " in its 

 parr state. It is the " sewin " of Wales, the 

 "grey trout " of some rivers, and the salmon- 

 peal of others. While the Salmo solar has 

 22 to 26 rows of scales above the lateral line, 

 and the Salmo trutta 24 to 26, the Salmo 

 eriox has 27, and the Salmo fario 26 to 30 

 (Griinther). It is not quite equal in size and 

 in rapidity of growth to the salmon, and is 

 less symmetrical, and apparently not so well 

 formed for speed, or with such fine lines, as 

 that fish. It attains to a length of three 

 feet. The Salmo eriox has 14 rays in the 

 dorsal fin, 11 to 12 in the anal, 16 in the 

 pectoral. The ventral fin has 9 and the 

 caudal 19 rays ; the numbers being constantly 

 the same in these two fins, in all the British 

 species enumerated. The vertebrae are 59 in 

 number, and the pyloric appendages are 39 

 to 47, rarely more. The scales in the smolt 

 stage are very deciduous. There are 14 

 rows in an oblique direction, from behind 



