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SEA TEOUT. 
GREY TROUT. BULL TROUT. SEA TRUFF. PUGTROUT. 
Yaruell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 71. Jentns; Manual, p. 423. 
Fisherman’s Magazine, vol. i, (No. 6.) 
This fish is generally, but irregularly distributed throughout 
the United Kingdom, but it is only at intervals that it is met 
■with in anything like abundance, and then only in the rivers 
of the north of England, Scotland, and in Ireland. Comparatively 
only a fe-w shew themselves, and those of the smaller size, in the 
summer, although we are told that in July and August, 1864, 
which was a remarkably dry season ndth deficiency of water in 
the rivers, they were in large numbers in the Tweed, so as to 
be much more abundant than the Salmon, this latter fish being 
through that summer remarkably scarce. The Sea Trout is said 
to breed in the autumn, but this is doubtful as a general 
habit, from the fact that the usual time at which they enter the 
rivers from the sea for breeding is not earlier than November, 
and an example taken in the Eowey river in Cornwall, from 
which our figure and description were taken, obtained on the 
third of December, had the grains of roe of large size, so that 
one of them which was measured was the fifth of an inch in 
diameter. 
At the time of the migration of this fish, as fishing with a 
rod is little practiced and nets are not in use, the interest it excites 
is less than is felt for some other kinds, and its habits in 
consequence are less observed; but we believe that in passing 
up the river they do not put forth such efforts to get up to the 
higher stations, or overcome difiiculties, as the Salmon is known 
to do, and that the roe is shed in somewhat deeper water Yet 
