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COMMON SALMON. Class IV. 



GENUS XLI. SALMON. 



Rays branchiostegous unequal in number. 

 Fins two dorsal : the second thick, and without 



rays. 



* With teeth. 



1. Common. Salmo Plinii Lib. ix. c. 18. 



Ausonius Mosel. 97. 

 Salmone. Salvia):. 100. 

 Le Saulmon. Bclon, 27 1. 

 Salmo. Rondel, fluviat. 167. 



Gesner pise. 824. Schone- 



velde, 64. 

 Salmon. Wit Ichth. 1 89. Raii 



Syn. pise. 63. 

 Salmo rostro ultra inferiorem 



maxillam ssepe prominente. 



Arled. Synon. 22. 

 Salmo Salar. Lin. Syst. 50g. 



Gm. Lin. 1348. Gronov, 



Zooph. No. 069. 

 Lax. Faun. Suec. No. 122. 

 Lachss. Wulff. Boruss. No. 42. 

 Le Saumon. Duhamel Tr. dee 



Pesehes, ii. 184. tab. 1. 

 Le Becard. Block ichth. iii. 



123. tab. 98. (male). 

 Le Saumon. ib. i. 106. t. 20. 



(female). 

 Le Salmone Saumon. DelaCe- 



pede Hist, des Poissons, v. 



159. 



JlHE salmon is a northern fish, being un- 

 known in the Mediterranean sea, and other 

 warm climates ; it is found in France in some 

 of the rivers that empty themselves into the 

 ocean,* and north as far as Greenland ; it is also 

 very common in Newfoundland, and the north- 

 ern and western parts of North America. Sal- 

 mon are taken in the rivers of Kamtschatkarf 

 of the same species with the European kind. 



* Rondel. Jluviat. 167. f Hist. Kamtsch. 143. 



