SALMON. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Body compressed, and furnished towards the tail with a fat 
fin. 
Tongue cartilaginous. 
Teeth both in the jaws and on the tongue. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Salmo Salar. S. rostro ultra inferiorem maxillam prominente. 
Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. 1364. 
Beak projecting beyond the lower jaw. 
S. griseo-argenteus, corpore maeulato, maxillis 
maris apice incurvatis. Shaw Gen. Zool. 5. 
p. 3 9. pi. 102. 
Salmon. . . Will. Ichth. p. I89. pi. 11. f. 2. Bloch, pi. 20. 
and 98. Penn. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 284. no. 143. 
pi. 58. 
It would be needless to detail the form of so well 
known a fish as the salmon ; we shall, therefore, 
proceed to relate what is interesting in its natural 
history, after having noticed that the male is prin- 
cipally distinguished from the female by the curva- 
ture of the jaws ; both the upper and lower man- 
