INDEX 



217 



Salmon fishery legislation, 43, 44 

 Salmon fishing, common law, Scotland, 8 



Crown's rights in Scotland, 7 

 Salmon Rivers and Lochs of Scotland, The, 



W. L. Calderwood, 40, 147 

 Salmonidcc, classification, 13-15, 18, 19, 42, 



206-20S 

 common ancestor, 32, 207 

 distribution, 30 

 marine origin, 30-32 

 Salvclinus, genus, 18, 19 

 Scales, bull trout, Aln, 65, 66 

 erosion, 5, 171, 172 

 examination urged, 42, 64, 66, 113 

 fry, 87 

 growth, 87 

 parr, 87, 96, 97 



salmon and trout distinguished, 54 

 scale formula, salmon, 54-56, 96, 97 



sea-trout, 54-56, 97 

 sea-trout, annual spawning, 171-176 



grilse, distinguished from, 58 



marine residence, 143, 144 



recaptures, 171-176 



salmon, distinguished from, 59 



trout, distinguished from, 61 

 sniolt, loi, 105 



exceptional size, 105 



migration, 108-1 11 

 whitling, ascent, 119 



small Norwegian, 122 



spawning, 130, 131 

 Scrope, William, parr and smelts, 101 

 Sea-trout, age, 49 



alevins (q.v.), 74-76, 79, 80, 121, 196-198 

 anadromous habit, 24, 29 

 artificial propagation (q-v.), 179-200 

 bull trout, distinguished from, 38, 40, 42, 



56, 61-67, 175, 207 

 classification, 12, 17-19, 42, 206-208 



one species (Malloch), 16 



two races (Regan), 38, 62 



two species suggested, 42, 208 



two varieties (Calderwood), 40 

 close season criticised, 155 

 colouration, 33, 35, 47, 50, 51, 52, 59, 61 

 cross-breeding, 23, 163, 164 

 Crown's rights in Scotland, 7 

 deformities, 77, 78, 197 

 distribution, 28, 30, 47, 48 

 eggs (q.v.), 71-76, 78-80, 130, 162, 179-200 

 eye, 58 



feeding habits, 83, S5-87, 91, 129, 135, 149, 

 168 



Sea-trout, fry, 83, 85-87 



kelts, 168 



parr, 91 



sea-trout, 135, 149 



whitling, 129, 135 

 fins, 50, 53 

 first return, 140-144 



evidence from scales, 143, 144 

 " Fordidge," 39 

 fry (q.v.), 76-87, 121, 190-199 

 gathering grounds, 144-147 

 gill-covers, 56, 57 

 Hebridean, 25, 28 



" homing " instinct, 125-128, 169-175 

 Howietoun experiments, 22, 23, H2, 113 

 kelts (q.v.), 132, 133, 142, 159, 160, 167-169 

 land-locked, 21-24, 112, 113 

 leaping, 149, 151, 152 

 limits of ascent, 152 

 lochs as gathering grounds, 144-147 

 maxillary, 55, 97 

 " monsters," 77, 78 

 Norwegian, 66, 102-104, 108-111, 122, 14S, 



173, 174 

 numbers decreasing, 43 

 original habitat, 29-32 

 Orkney and Shetland, 28 

 parr (q.v.), 9, 67 (note), 84, 86, 91-99, 



102-104, 106, 112, 113, 206 

 running habits, 147-153 

 salmon, distinguished from, 53-59, 76, 



96-98, 99, 100-107, 150 

 scales (q.v.), 42, 52, 54-56, 58, 59, 61, 



64-66, 87, 96, 97, 101, 105, ioS-111,113, 



119, 122, 130, 131, 171-176 

 sexes, 61 



shape, 47, 53, 59, 98, 159, 160 

 shoal habit, 84, 85, 106, 113, 123-127, 147, 



150 

 smolts (q.v.), 9, 67 (note), 91-116, 206 

 spawning (q.v.), 50, 61, 92 (note), 132, 148, 



153-155, 159-176 

 spots, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 97, 98 

 spring run, I33, 134, 139, 140 

 statutory definition, 9, 67 (note), 206 

 tail, 50, 54, 63 

 teeth, 57, 60 



timidity, 152, 153, 167, 168 

 trout, no structural differences from 

 (Regan), 17, 20, 59, 97 

 " }'oung " indistinguishable (Regan), 



17, 21, 97 

 distinctions noted, 76, 98, 99 

 " unclean or unseasonable," 132 



