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LOCHLEVEJi TROUT. 
Scales small and well fixed. Colour of the back deep olive green, 
the sides lighter, round dark spots on the gill-covers and sides; 
also on the dorsal fin, none of them with a lighter border. 
Anterior border of the dorsal and anal fins plain. Compared 
with the Common Trout, there is a considerable difference in 
the number of caeca or appendages to the beginning of the 
bowels, there being from sixty to eighty in this fish, and only 
about forty-six in the Common Trout; and it is on this account 
that the specific name of cceoifer, or ccBca-bearer was bestowed 
upon it. But there are other, and striking differences between 
this fish and the Common Trout, as that the pectoral fins are 
pointed, those of the latter fish rounded; the body without red 
spots. In the Lochleven Trout the rays of the tail are propor- 
tionally much the longest, and the upper and lower portions 
more pointed. Colour of the flesh deep red. 
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