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PEAL. 
SALMON LEAL. BULL TROUT? 
This fish is to be distinguished from one that is called the 
Salmon Peal in the fish shops of London; which is an early 
stage of the Salmon. 
Salmo Trutta, Linnjeus. Flemino; Br. Animals, p 180 
Tlie Scurf, Bull Trout, 
Trutta Salmonata, WiLLOUGiiBy; p. 198. Jenyns ; Manual, p. 423. 
Salmo Trutta, Tabrell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 77. 
The Peal in its habits bears much likeness to the Salmon, 
as it does also in no small degree in form; but with this 
there exists also so much contrariety, that it has been observed 
where one abounds the other becomes scarce; and if from any 
cause, except indeed from that which is too common in some 
parts of England, the presence of mineral water, or the refuse 
of poisonous manufactures in the river, the Salmon is driven 
to forsake it, this fish presently resorts to it in increasing 
numbers; but they for the most part quit it again if Salmon 
again become abundant. 
When speaking of the Salmon it was remarked that the 
place of resort of this tribe of fishes when at sea is scarcely 
known; but less uncertainty exists as regards the wanderings 
of the Peal, since so early in the spring as March or April, 
and still more frequently in May it is often caught, but usually 
as single individuals, in the drift-nets shot for Mackarel at 
about the middle of the entrance of the British Channel; where 
it is in the course of migration towards the land, and nearer 
to which it approaches as the season advances. As these nets 
are made to float at but a small depth where the 
water is 
