GREY SALMON. Class IV. 



■2° Grey. The Grey, i. e. cinereus seu Lachss-forellen mk Schwartz- 



Griseus. TVil. Ichth. IQ3. grauen fiecken oder punkt- 



Raii Syn. pise. 63. chens. Wulff.Boruss. No. 43. 



Salmo maculis cinereis } caudas Shaw Gen. Zool. v. 47. 



extremo ffiquali. Arted. Sy- Salmo Schiefermuleri. Block 



non. 23. ichth. iii. 133. tab. 103 ? 



Salmo Eriox. Lin. Syst. 50Q. Le Salmone Schieffermuller. 



Gm. Lin. 1366. ? De la CepedeHist. des Pois- 



Gralax. Faun. Suec. No. 346. sons. v. 187? 



[IN compliance with the irresistible impulse of 

 nature, this fish ascends many British rivers, 

 both in England and Wales, particularly the lat- 

 ter, but some of them earlier than others, from 

 the beginning of June to late in July. 

 Descrip- In make, it nearly resembles the salmon, but 

 the head is rather larger in proportion ; and the 

 body rounder, or not so much compressed ; the 

 tail is not so much indented, and it is altogether 

 of a lighter color. It is greatly inferior in size, 

 seldom exceeding eighteen inches in length, 

 or two pounds in weight. When it has been 

 supposed considerably to exceed that size, the 

 observer was, it is more than probable, deceived 

 by some singular appearance of the common 

 salmon, or perhaps a hybrid fish ; for, that such 

 exist, those persons, who have paid most atten- 

 tion to this subject of ichthyology, have not a 



TION. 



