. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Fishes. 1. SAXMO. 141 delicious fish of the fish-ponds at St. Petersburg, found more rarely in the river Kama, and now also in the Caspian Sea. I have little ioubt that this species, which is very seldom taken in the Wolga, enters the Kama bv the northern streams flowing into that river, of which several, tributaries of both the Kama and the Kolva, are near to the sources of the streams flowing into the Petschow and the Vitchegda; so that, when the waters are swollen by the snow, the Trout (which usually ascend
. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Fishes. 1. SAXMO. 141 delicious fish of the fish-ponds at St. Petersburg, found more rarely in the river Kama, and now also in the Caspian Sea. I have little ioubt that this species, which is very seldom taken in the Wolga, enters the Kama bv the northern streams flowing into that river, of which several, tributaries of both the Kama and the Kolva, are near to the sources of the streams flowing into the Petschow and the Vitchegda; so that, when the waters are swollen by the snow, the Trout (which usually ascend to the extreme sources of the rivers) would easily be able to cross, from one to the other. With reference to the river Muilwa, which flows into the upper Kama, eye-wit- nesses have assured me that it rises from a marsh which in spring time, being entirely inundated, is changed into a lake, whence a stream flows likewise to the Vitchegda. By these interlacements of the rivers the migratory fish ascending from the ocean have been able to cross into the Kama and there to multiply their species. II. Asia. 14. Salino fluviatilis. Salmo taimen, I'allas, Reise, ii. App. p. 716; L., Gm. p. 1372. fluviatilis, Pottos, Zoogr. iii. p. B. 11. D. 13. A. 13. L. lat. 187. Similar in form to S. fario; head of moderate size, its length being two-ninths of the total (without caudal). Snout of moderate extent; eye rather small. MaxiUary very broad and strong, ex- tending to behind the eye; teeth rather small; vomerine teeth. The lower limb of the prseoperculum is oblique and very long. Adipose fin large and thick ; caudal emarginate. We refer only one (No. 85) of the two specimens from Pallas's. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History); G, Albert C. L. G. (Albert Carl Lud
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