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SLENDER SALMON. 
Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society for 1859. 
Salmo Hucho, 
Salmo gracilis, 
Fleming; British Animals, p. 179, which he 
makes the same with the Bull Trout. 
Nobis. 
In the Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 
here referred to, is an account of the taking of a fish which, 
in reliance on what Fleming has described of one exceedingly 
similar, was referred to a species of Salmon known as a native 
of the Danube by the name of Hue or Huech, and in Hungary 
as Huho or Huhko; but since the publication of the paper on 
the Cornish Salmonid®, as mentioned above, I have learnt from 
Dr. Gunther that the characters assigned to our fish will not 
apply to the Hucho of Germany and Linnaeus j and that this 
last-named species is not found anywhere even in Germany, 
except in the Danube and its tidbutary streams; to which Dr! 
Reisinger adds, that it is not common in any part of Hungary. 
It is evident that the figure of the Hucho in the work of Bloch, 
pi. 100, is not nearly like our fish; and the more indiflferent 
one copied by Willoughby from Gesner is still less like it. We 
are therefore compelled to conclude that our fish, presently to 
be described, must not be refeiTed to any known species of the 
continent of Europe. 
The example from which our figure and description were 
taken was caught in the hai'bour of Fowey, in the month of 
January; and it has since been sent to the British Museum. 
But the figure was taken when it was fresh from the water! 
and a copy of it was communicated to Mr. YarreU; whose 
opinion of it. we give in justice to that gentleman, in his own 
words:— “Many thanks for your drawing of the female Salmon 
