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MEMBERS OF THE SALMON FAMILY. 



these fish were really the pond-bred ones returned as grilse. It 

 is impossible that twenty or thirty grilse could have all been acci- 

 dentally maimed within a few weeks, and each present the same 

 — the very same appearance. Various other plans of marking 

 were tried by the authorities at Stormontfield, some of which 

 were partially successful, and added another link to the chain of 

 evidence, which proves at any rate that many individual fish 

 have grovm from the smolt to the grUse state in- the course of a 

 very few weeks. 



FISHES. OF THB SALMON FAMILY. 



I. Salmon. a. Grilse, 3. Sea-trout 4. Herling. 



