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INDEX. 



Bills about salmon, Many, but few 

 Acts, 140. 



"Black-fin," 81. 



" Black-taUs," 70, 71. 



Boothia Felix, Value of salmon in, 5. 



Boundaries, Natural, between estu- 

 aries and seas, to be fixed by Com- 

 missioners, 169. 



Branlin, Local name of young sal- 

 mon, 35. 



Breeding ponds, Value of, 227. 



Breeding (by Mr. Shaw) of parrs from 

 two salmon, 40. 



Brewster (Sir David), on eye of parr 

 and salmon being of similar forma- 

 tion, 36. 



Brood, name of young salmon north- 

 ward, 35. 



Brora — Francks on export of pickled 

 salmon, 96. 



Brown fish difficult to catch, 158. 



Bruce — Acts for the preservation of 

 salmon in reign of Robert the 

 Bruce, 136. 



Buckland (Frank) on Pisciculture, 

 referred to, 222. 



Buist (Mr. Robert) of Perth, his 

 services, 52. 



Bull-trout and salmon. Difference in 

 habits of, 127. 



Bull-trout of Tweed, 70, 71. 



Burt (Captain) on Branlin and " Sal- 

 mon frye," 35. 



on Price of Salmon at Inver- 

 ness, 92. 



Byron (Lord) on Izaak Walton, 24. 



Cairn-nets dealt with by BiU of 1857, 

 154, 159 ; described, 158. 



Canadian Legislature abolish leister- 

 ing, 163. 



Capture of grilse and salmon in Tweed, 

 annual average for five years, 74. 



Carlisle, fishery belonging to its Cor- 

 poration afl"ected by stake-nets, 

 131. 



Carriage, slowness and dearness of, 

 caused local cheapness, 96. 



Causes of decrease of salmon, 114- 

 133. 



Charge of cruelty answered, 19-24. 



Charters for sea-coast fisheries all 

 granted before fixed engines were 

 thought of, 181 ; the earliest, 183 ; 

 the latest, 190. 



Glean spring salmon, what are they 

 wanting ? 86. 



Cleopatra an angler on the Oydnus, 

 29. 



Close-Season, killing of spawning fish 

 in, a cause of decrease, 117. 



shortening or mistiming of, a 



cause of decrease, 117. 



on Scotch rivers fixed at May 



1864, see Table, p. 235. 



in English rivers as fixed by 



Act of 1861, 173. 



Clyde now depopulated of salmon, 



116. 

 Cod, marked salmon found in stomach 



of, 85. 

 Commissioners, power given to by 



Bill of 1862, 169. 

 Commissioners of Land Eevcuuc, 



courses open to, 200. 

 " Common Fisheries" in Ireland, 8. 

 Common law of England on salmon 



fisheries, 135. 

 Conon, fisheries on, transferred to 



Cromarty Firth, 193. 

 Coquet, Bull-trout in, 71. 

 Cost of fish affected by advance of 



season, 52. 

 Costly sport, salmon angling, 15. 

 Cotton's lines on peaccableness of 



anglers, 29. 



