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I>ELED SALMON. 



Salmo Peled. S, edentulus, radiis pinncB dorsalis decern, Lm. 



Gmel. Lepechin, it. 3. p. 226. 

 Toothless Salmon, with ten-rayed dorsal fin. 



Length eighteen inches : body thick : head 

 conic, spotted with black ; snout obtuse ; lower 

 jaw rather longer than the upper : back blueish : 

 sides and abdomen white: very nearly allied to 

 the S. Albula of Linnaeus, and perhaps only a 

 variety. Inhabits rivers in the north of Russia: 

 xlescribed by Lepechin. 



PIDSCHAN SALMON. 



Salmo Pidschan. S* maxilla superiore lofigiore^ radiis pinncB 

 dorsi gibbi iredecim. Li?i. Gmel. Pall, it, 3. p, 705. 



^Salmon with the upper jaw longer than the lower, and thirtecn- 

 rayed gibbous dorsal fin. 



IMUDSCHAN SALMON. 



Salmo corpore latiore, pinnae ani radiis quatuordecimt. Lin, 



Gmel. Pall. it. 3, p. 705. 

 Salmon with broadish body,, and fourteen rays in the anal fin. 



Both the above are so much allied to the S. Lava- 

 ret us as to leave it doubtful whether they may not 

 be varieties of that species : the length of each of 

 the abpve fishes is about two spans : their general 



