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GRAYLING SALMON. Class IV. 



8. Gray- 

 ling. 



Qvv.oi.Xki;. JEHan. de an. lib. 

 xiv. c. 22. 



Umbra Ausonii Mosella. go. 



Thymalus, Thymus. Salvian. 

 81. Belon, 276. 



Thymus, Umbra fluviatilis. 

 Rondel. fluv. 187, 172. Ges- 

 nerpisc. 132. 



A Grayling, or Umber. Wil. 

 Ichth- 187- Ran syn. pise. 

 62. Coregonus maxilla su- 

 periore longiore, pinna dor- 

 si ossiculorum viginti trium. 

 Arted. synon. 20. 



Salmo Thymallus. Lin. syst. 



512. Gm. Lin. 1379- Gro- 



nov. Zooph. No. 375. 

 Asch. Kram. 39O. 

 L'Ombre D'Auvergne. Du- 



hamel Tr. des Pesches, ii. 



2V8. tab. 3. Jig. 2. 

 L'Ombre d'Auvergne. Block 



ichth. i. 128. tab. 24. 

 Le Coregone Thymalle. De la 



Cepede Hist. desPoissons, v. 



256. 



A HE grayling haunts clear and rapid streams, 

 and particularly such as flow through moun- 

 tanous countries. It is found in the rivers of 

 Derbyshire ; in some of those of the north ; in 

 the Tame near Ludlow ; in the Lug, and other 

 streams near Leominster ; and in the river near 

 Christchurch, Hampshire. It is also very 

 common in Lapland ; the inhabitants make use 

 of the guts of this fish instead of rennet, to 

 make the cheese which they get from the milk 

 of the rein deer.* 



It is a voracious fish, rises freely to the fly, 

 and will very eagerly take a bait; is a very 



* Flora Lap. 109. Amcen. Acad. iv. I09. 



