. British and Irish Salmonidæ. ere exists the head of one in the British Museum10 in. long from the Tweed, which measurement would seem to show the fishmust have been nearly 4 ft. in length. Buckland remarked that at the end ofNovember, 1868, the Honourable Charles Ellis caught with the rod at BrighamDubb, on the Tweed, a male , 4 ft. 1 in. in length, weighing 441b. This wasone of the Gray skull. One upwards of 21 lb. and measuring 41 feet inlength, was taken in a small tributary of the Trent at Drayton Manor, and sentby Sir Robert Peel to Yarrell, the skeleton of which is now in the Muse
. British and Irish Salmonidæ. ere exists the head of one in the British Museum10 in. long from the Tweed, which measurement would seem to show the fishmust have been nearly 4 ft. in length. Buckland remarked that at the end ofNovember, 1868, the Honourable Charles Ellis caught with the rod at BrighamDubb, on the Tweed, a male , 4 ft. 1 in. in length, weighing 441b. This wasone of the Gray skull. One upwards of 21 lb. and measuring 41 feet inlength, was taken in a small tributary of the Trent at Drayton Manor, and sentby Sir Robert Peel to Yarrell, the skeleton of which is now in the Museum of theCollege of Surgeons. In the Usk Mr. WiUis-Bund has recorded a bull-troutkelt 15 or 16 lb. weight, taken January 3rd, 1870 : one of 28 lb. January 11th,1873: and one of 20 lb. taken in a putcher at Goldcliff on April 4th, 1876. The figures in plate V consist of (No. 1) a male salmon-toout from the Teith,15 in. long, and which had 57 ciecal appendages, and (No. 2) a female sewin15 in. long which possessed 40 Fig. 41, Fresh-water , Ancylus (enlarged). 1, Planorbis: 2, Limnea percgra. 182 SALMONIDiE OF BRITAIN. FRESH-WATER TROUT. In the foregoing pages I have advanced reasons for supposing that wepossess only one species of sea trout, although our eastern and northern foitn ofsalmon-trout, Salmo trutta, appears as a rule to have a few more crecalap])cndages than the sewin, S. camhricus, which is chiefly found on the southernand western parts of England and Wales, and along most of our Irish so similar are these races, that no naturalist has yet succeeded inpointing out unmistakable differences between the two, while their dentitionand the formation of the jaws vary to such an extent that they cannot be reliedupon as differentiating one from the other, although generally the vomer hasmore teeth along its body in the northern than in the southern variety. Passing, as the sea trout docs, by insensible gradations and almost unappreci-abl
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