Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 127 coldest and clearest lakes of the Alps and of Northern Europe, darkcolored and spotted with bright red, the scales so small that they seemas mere impressions in the slimy skin, so that the average fishermandoes not recognize their existence. This is a finer and more beautifulfish than any of the trout, and in most waters it is very much lessabundant. This fish is known in England as the Charr, and on theContinent it has, in German
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 127 coldest and clearest lakes of the Alps and of Northern Europe, darkcolored and spotted with bright red, the scales so small that they seemas mere impressions in the slimy skin, so that the average fishermandoes not recognize their existence. This is a finer and more beautifulfish than any of the trout, and in most waters it is very much lessabundant. This fish is known in England as the Charr, and on theContinent it has, in Germany, the name of Saibling or Slilbling (bothwords from the low Latin name Salvelinus, which again is a sort ofdiminutive of Salmo—a little salmon). In France it is called theOmbre Chevalier, which come from the Latin name Umhla, from Umbra,shade, given to the same fish in allusion to its dark colors and its loveof shady places in the lakes and brooks. This charr difiers from all thetrout in various anatomical respects, the most notable of which is theentirely different form of its vomer, a character which could
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