THE SALMOK FAMILY. 307 



be distinguished from this fish and the Bull-Trout have 

 been akeady given in full*, and need not here be reca- 

 pitulated; but it may be observed generally that in ap- 

 pearance it is somewhat rounder or more tapering than 

 either of its congeners, the form of the gUl-lids and pro- 

 portions of the tail being intermediate between the two. 

 The scales are also relatively smaller. 



It is not only in its edible characters that the Sea-Trout 

 deserves the good word of anglers. Indigenous in almost 

 all Salmon or BuU-Trout rivers, and frequently abounding 

 in streams which produce neither the one nor the other, 

 there is no fish that swims which will rise so boldly at the 

 fly, or which, when hooked, shows for its size such in- 

 domitable — English pluck I was about to say — but at any 

 rate such gallant and determined courage. In fact, the 

 bright graceful Salmo trutta is the most game and mettle- 

 some, if not, on the whole, the most beautiful fish known 

 to Europe, or probably to the world. 



The Sea-Trout is the Salar of the Moselle, so named by 

 Ausonius in the fourth century — 



"Purpureisque Scdar stellatus tergore guttis." 

 In habits it closely resembles the Salar, or true Salmon, 

 of modern ichthyologists, and is included in aU statutory 

 restrictions affecting this fish or the Bull-Trout. Writing 

 of the Sea-Trout, Sir William Jardine says : — " In ap- 

 proaching the entrance of rivers, or in seeking out, as it 



« GiU-covers, p. 245. Teeth, p. 246. Tail-fin, p. 247; other fins, 

 p. 301. 



