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SEA TROUT. 
It has been taken in a smaller stream than the Salmon would 
mlhngly enter, although probably it was not there for the purpose 
of breeding. Mr. Thompson was the first to notice this fish 
in Ireland, wher., however, it is not rare, although most abundant 
in the north, and he mentions examples of the unusual size of 
sixteen pounds. They have also been caught with a line on that 
coast at some distance from landj but I have never obtained 
It from nets shot in the sea in the manner or under the 
circumstances in which the Peal is often caught. 
The food found in the stomach of the Sea Trout has been 
two spemes of the Launce, with some vegetable substance, and 
in the river it will take a fly. This is particularly the case with 
the young when m the spring they are ready to go down to 
the sea; and at this time they are marked on the side with those 
bands which give the denomination of Parr to the young fishes 
of two or three species of the Salmon family which are marked 
with It Indeed the young of the present species are made to 
contend with those of the Salmon and Salmon Trout, for the 
character of being pre-eminently the Parr of the rivers. 
This is one of the fish which under the equivocal name of 
Tiout IS sent to London from Scotland in company with the 
Salmon, but it is less esteemed for the table than that fish From 
expenments made in the lakes of Norway it appears that the 
Sea Trout will propagate when confined to fresh water but 
after several years it did not reach the size that is common in 
mtuations where its habits of migration have not been interfered 
described measured only thirteen inches, but 
length f moderately 
lengthened, plump; from the snout to the centre of the eve 
one inch; to the niargin of the gill-covers two inches and a 
half; diameter of the eye nine twentieths of an inch. Jaws 
equal when closed, mystache even with the hindmost border of 
the eye. Teeth along the margin of the jaws, and round the 
pala e; a double row along the middle of the palate, (vomer) 
in alteinate ordei. Tongue nearly square in front, with two 
rows of incurved teeth. Eleven rays in the gill-membrane. 
Dorsal fin at the centre of the body and of gravity or as 
quaintly expressed by the Cornish local historian Carew, when 
Trouts are of middle growth, they are “eygall peized twixt either 
