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into the air, and yielding to its fate only after an ex- 

 haustive conflict, in which it is aided by the size and great 

 muscular development of the fins, which are larger than 

 those of the Salmon. Like the Salmon, the Bull-Trout 

 ascends rivers to spawn, but somewhat sooner in the 

 season, — the fry, as it is supposed, returning to the sea 

 correspondingly early. 



The cut at the head of this notice was engraved from a 

 full-grown male fish of 32 inches in length, from which 

 also the descriptive characteristics at pages 301 and 305-6 

 were taken. The figure below gives a representation of a 

 younger fish, in which it will be observed that the tail-fin 

 is hardly square at the end, whilst in the adult specimen 

 it is convex. 



The Bull-Trout is far from being as common in this 

 country as the Salmon or Sea-Trout. Probably it is 

 better known in the Tweed than in any other river, being 

 there as abundant as either of the other two species ; but 

 the Tweed is in this respect exceptional. 



Amongst other localities, the Bull-Trout is known to 

 exist in the streams of Devonshire and Cornwall, in the 

 Severn, in several of the rivers of South Wales (where it 



