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INDEX 



Sea-trout, weather, 150 

 weight, 3S, 48, 49, 50 



whitliiig (q-v.), 9, 104, loS, 113, 115, 

 119-135, 139 

 Sea-trout fishing, common law of Scotland, S 



Crown's rights in vScotland, 7 

 Sewen, 38, 62 

 vSlob trout, 24, 25 

 Smolts, 9, 67 (note), 91-116, 306 

 salmon, 100-107, m. ii4> ii5 

 sea-trout, age at time of descent, 105-113 



capture illegal, 92 



colouration, loi, 104 



Dahl, 92, 108-110 



descent, 104, 105 



description, 104 



distinctions tabulated, 102-104 



distinguished from salmon, 100, 101 



estuarial habit, 114 



fins, 101, 104 



Hiiitfeldt-Kaas, 93, 102-104 



lochs, influence of, 111, 144-147 



migration, scale evidence, 105, 108-112 



migratory instinct dormant, 112 



" parr marks," 101, 104 



scales, 101, 104, 105, 108-112 



shoal habit, 113 



size, 101, 104, 115 



spots, 101, 104 



statutory definition, 9, 67 (note), 206 



tail, 101, 104 



vigour (Chaytor), 96 

 vSpawning period, 159-176 

 annual function, 169-176 

 ascent, 14S 

 barren fish, 160 

 cross-breeding, 163, 164 

 dress, 50, 61, 159, 160 

 duration, 164, 165 

 effects on fish, 165 

 kelts, 132, 165-169 



capture illegal, 132, 166 



mortality, 165, 166 

 months, 153-155 

 ova, 161, 162 

 process described, 160-163 

 redds, 161, 163 



disturbance illegal, 92 (note), 165 

 season, 14S, 153-155 

 vSplash nets, 149 

 Stuart, Hamish, Hebridean trout, 25 



Salinonidcc, original habitat, 32 

 Stewart, Charles, .Scottish law of fishing, 7 



Systematic Arrangement of the Fishes of 

 the Family Salmouidcc, The, C. Tate 

 Regan, iS 



vSystematists and morphologists, 12-14 



T 



Tail, bull trout, contrasted with sea-trout, 

 40-42, 63 



parr, 96, gS 



salmon contrasted with trout, 54 



salmon contrasted with sea-trout, 54, 55 



smolts, 55, 101, 104 

 Tailless trout, 42 

 " Ta3' bull trout," 40, 49, 175 

 Teeth, 57, 60 

 Teleostei, sub-class, iS 

 Teratology of Fishes, The, Dr. James F. 



Gemmill, 77 

 Thomson, John, Howietoun experiments, 22 

 Tliymalliis, genus, ig 

 Tidal trout, 24-27, 34 



Treatise on the Law of Scotland relating to 

 the Rights of Fishing, Charles Stewart, 



7 

 Trout, age, 49 



bull-nosed, 42 



classification, 12, 17-19, 42, 206-20S 

 SaUno fario, one species (Malloch), 17 

 Sahno trutia, one .species (Regan), 16 



Clyde, 34 



colouration, 33, 34, 35, 50, 51, 52, 59, 93-96 



cross-breeding, 15, 23, 36, 163, 164 



deformities, 42 



distribution, 28, 47 



eggs, 71, 73, 74-76, 78, 79, 192, ig4, ig8 



estuarine, 24-27, 34 



fins, 53, g5 



" Fordidge," 41 



fry, 76, 78, 79, 83, 84, 198 



Hebridean, 24, 25, 27, 28 



hybrid (Stuart), 25 



Loch Lomond, 27, 34, 37, 52, 100 



marine origin, 28, 29 



maxillaiy, 55 



New Zealand, 24 



Orkney and Shetland, 24, 26, 28 



Pacific, 19 



" parr-marked," 94 



salmon, distinguished from (Regan), 54, 

 ,S.S 



scales, 54, 61 



sea-trout, no structural differences from 

 (Regan), 17, 20, 59, 97 



