330 HISTORY OF THr FISHES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



I stated in my Keport, that I considered this fish to be the serrata, although I had 

 no means of ascertaining what that species was, having no works upon Ichthyology 

 which would assist me. Dr. Dekay, under date of June Tth, 1841, wrote me that I was 

 right in my supposition, as he had compared my specimen " directly with one he had 

 brought from Biazil some years ago." 



Massachusetts, Storeb, Jamaica, Catesby. 



FAMILY XVI. SALMONIDJE. 



Body scaly. First dorsal with soft rays, the second small and adipose. Numerous 

 coeca, and a natatory bladder. The structure and armature of the jaws vary sur- 

 prisingly. Almost all of them ascend rivers. 



GENUS L SALMO, Lin. 



Head smooth ; teeth on the vomer, both palatine bones, and all the maxillary bones ; 

 branchiostegous rays varjing in number, generally from ten to twelve, but sometimes 

 unequal on the two sides of the head of the same fish. 



Salmo salar, Li?i. 

 The Salmon, 



(Plate XXY. Fia. 2.) 



Salmo salar, LiK., Syst Hat (12th edit ), p 509. 



'' " Bloch, I pi 20 (female) , iii p 98 (male) 



'^ '' Salmon^ Pennant, But. Zool , viii p 382. 



'* '' Common Sea-Balmonj Shaw, Gen Zool., v. p 40, fig. 102. 



" ^ Salmoti) [Fleming, Brit An, p 179, sp 40. 



*« « " Jentns, Bnt Teit , p. 421. 



" " " Geif3S'ith's Cut, x p. 416. 



" " " Fabbicitjb, Fauna Groenlandica, p. 170 



" " Common Sahnon^ Miichill, Trans* Lit and PHI. Soc. of N. Y , i, p. 435. 



« " '' " Be Witx Clinton, Trans. Lit. and Phil Soc of I<I. Y , i. pp. 147, 498. 



*< " ** " EiCH , Eauna Boreal. Americ , iii. p. 145. 



" " Salmon, Stober, Ecport, p. 104. 



" " Common Sea-Salmon, Dekay, Eeport, p. 241, pi. 38, fig. 122. 



" " Salmon, TnoMPSON, Hist, of Veimont, p. 140. 



" " " Stoeer, Mem Amer. Acad., Hew Series, ii. p 444. 



" « «' " Synopsis, p. 192. 



SalmOy Cur etVAL, Nat Hist desPois, xxi p. 169. 



Color. This species is of a beautiful, brilliant silver-color above, lighter upon the 

 sidesj white beneath ; many black blotches are observed upon the sidea^ which are much 



