Clafs IV. SS Ac NA ae Sa oe Py orp: 
lower; both jaws, as well as the head, were of a 
pale brown, blotched with black: the teeth fharp 
and ftrong, difpofed in the jaws, roof of the mouth 
and tongue, as js the cafe with the whole genus, ex- 
cept the Gwyniad, which is toothlefs, and the Gray- 
ting, which has none on its tongue. 
The back was dufky; the fides tinged ie a 
purplifh bloom, marked with deep spl {pots, 
mixed with black, above and below the fide line 
which was ftrait: the belly white, 
The firft dorfal fin was fpotted; the fpurious fin 
brown, tipped with red ; he pectoral, ventral, and 
anal fins, of a pale brown; the edges of the anal 
fin white: the tail very little forked when ex- 
tended. 
Vio usb Sh CA ENTE CR By. 2 
Le Tacon? Belon. 275. Eboracenfibus. Raii fyn. pife. 
Salmulus, Herefordice Samlet Gar 
dictus. Wil. Icth. 192. Salmoneta, a Branlin, Ray’s 
Salmulus, ae Samlet Herefor- _—- Letters, 199. 
dienfioas, Branlin et Fingerin 
HE famlet is the left of the trout kind, is 
frequent in the Wye, in the upper part of the 
Severn, and the rivers that run into it, in the north 
of England, and in Wales. It is by feveral imagined 
to be the fry of the falmon; but our yoieds for 
diffenting from that opinion are thele : 
Firft, It is well known that the falmon fry never 
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