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trout.” It is similar in habits to the salmon, but its flesh 
is paler in colour and inferior in quality. It is known as a 
“pink” or “orange fin” in its parr state. It is the 
“ sewin” of Wales, the “ grey trout” of some rivers, and 
the salmon-peal of others. Whereas the Salmo salar has 
twenty-two to twenty-six rows of scales above the lateral 
line, the Salmo trutta twenty-four to twenty- six, the Salmo 
eriox has twenty-seven, and the Salmo fario twenty-six to 
thirty (Gunther). It is not quite equal in size and 
in rapidity of growth to the salmon, and is less sym- 
metrical, and apparently not so well formed for speed, or 
with such fine lines, as that fish. It attains to a length of 
three feet. The Salmo eriox has fourteen rays in the 
dorsal fin, eleven to twelve in the anal, sixteen in the 
pectoral j the ventral fin has nine and the caudal nineteen 
rays, the numbers being constantly the same in these two 
fins, in all the British species enumerated ; the vertebrae 
are fifty-nine in number, and the pyloric appendages are 
thirty-nine to forty-seven, rarely more. The scales in the 
smolt stage are very deciduous. There are fourteen rows 
in an oblique direction, from behind the adipose fin forward 
to the lateral line, and twenty to twenty-two below that 
line. The authorities differ curiously about the identifica- 
tion of this fish. Gunther has not been able to obtain 
specimens of it from Scotland, and seems to consider it 
indigenous to Wales and the South of England. He 
thinks it “ quite possible ” that the typical specimen 
figured in “ Yarrell’s British Eishes,” “ belongs to Salmo 
trutta ; ” and the Salmon Commissioners of Tasmania are 
of the opinion that the Salmo eriox has not been introduced 
into that island. 
The Salmo quinnat has a very distinctive mark from all 
the other imported salmonoids. In this fish the anal fin 
has from fifteen to seventeen rays, while in each of the 
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