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Title: The naturalist’s library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Gould, Augustus A. (Augustus Addison), 1805-1866 Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI Myers, C., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Boston : Phillips, Sampson, and Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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so extraordinary, that a young salmon being takenat Warrington, and which weighed seven pounds on the seventh of Februa- Salmo solar, Lin. The genus Salmo has the trreater part of the upper jaw formed bythe maxillary bones; mouth large and furnishetl with teeth; ventral fins opposite themiddle of the first dorsal, and the adipose fin opposite the anal; bronchial membrane•ilh more than eight rays. 92 730 PISCES—SEA-TROUT…TROUT. ry, being marked with ?. scissors on the back fin, was again taken on theseventeenth of March following, and was then found to weigh seventeenpounds and a half. THE SEA-TROUT, OR S A L M 0 N-T R 0 U T,i Migrates like the salmon up several of our rivers, spawns, and returns tothe sea. The shape is thicker than the common trout. The head and backare dusky, with a gloss of blue and green, and the sides, as far as the lateralline, are marked with large irregular spots of black. The flesh, when boiled,is red, and resembles that of a salmon in taste. THE TROUT.2
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This is a f.sh of prey, has a short, roundish head, blunt nose, and wiaemouth, filled with teeth, not only in the jaws, but on the palate and tongue;the scales are small, the back ash color, the sides yellow, and, when in sea-son, it is sprinkled all over the body and covers of the gills Avith small beau-tiful red and black spots; the tail is broad. The colors of the trout, and its spots, vary greatly in different waters, aridin different seasons; yet each may be reduced to one species. In Llyndin,a lake in South Wales, are trouts called cochy-dail, marked with red andblack spots as big as sixpences; others unspotted, and of a reddish hue, thatsometimes weigh near ten pounds, but are bad tasted. In Lough Neagh, in Ireland, trouts are called buddaghs, which sometimesweigh thirty pounds. Trouts are common in all the mountainous parts of the United Stateseast of tae Alleghany ridge. » Salmo truita, Lin. * Salmo Jario, Lisr. PISCES—SMELT…GRAYLING. 731 THE SMELTi mi
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