among the stones. It eats nothing, soak¬ 
ing food from the yolk sack until all of 
that has disappeared. 
By this time the little salmon looks 
like a real fish, though a very tiny one. 
Now it is a parr. It has a dark-banded 
red-spotted coat, with light blue streaks 
BABY SALMON 
along the sides. The parr looks so little 
like a grown-up salmon in coloring that 
for a long time people thought it was an 
entirely different kind of fish. 
Hundreds of millions of these parrs 
swim around the spawning ground, but 
there are not so many of them as there 
were alevins. Many of the alevins died. 
Many of the parrs, too, will disappear. 
They move about in search of food, learn¬ 
ing to use their fins better and better. 
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