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SALMON TROUT. 
Salmo Trutta , Linn^us. Bloch; PI. 21. Ouvibk. 
“ “ Yakrell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 77. 
“ “ Jentns; Manual, p. 423. 
Among writers of considerable eminence there has been much 
difference of opinion as regards this fish, compared with the 
Peal, Sea Trout, and Salmon; ^vith one or other of which, and 
as we shall find, some others, it has been confounded; as they 
haye also been with one another. But it has been our endeavour 
to separate them in a manner that we suppose the least liable 
to mistake; although in doing this we shall represent more 
species than are usually acknowledged by naturalists; and yet 
in some particular or other of the distinctions we lay down, we 
find ourselves supported by authorities it will not be easy to 
gainsay. But it is in regard to the habits of these separate 
species that we meet with the greatest difficulty; since in the 
observations which have been made on that subject, we do not 
feel assured of the species which has been studied, and the 
information collected from distant districts becomes thereby 
subject to a large degree of uncertainty. 
In our own country the Salmon Trout is more a fish of the 
north than the generality of this genus; for although it occurs 
in the south and west of the kingdom, and our figure was taken 
from an example that was obtained in the west of Cornwall 
yet there it is not to be regarded as common; whereas in 
Scotland it is equally abundant with the Salmon, as it seems 
to be also in Ireland; where Mr. Thompson found it in the 
markets in the spring, but of the usual small size of that 
season. He does not give the date of one which weighed upwards 
of seventeen pounds. It is sent to London in company with 
the Sea Trout, under the common name of Trout; and when 
in season it is little inferior to the Salmon. 
