. British and Irish Salmonidæ. Salmonidae. 152 SALMONIDiE OF BRITAIN. similarly sLaped tail-fin. And twootlier forms of sea trout witb nearly even tail fins, Salmo trutta and S. eriox, the latter being the gray salmon or scurf of WillougliLy and Ray, tlie sewin of Donovan, and also the whitling or phinoc, tlie grilse of the northern sea trout; showing that these authors united the Welsh sewin with the northern gray salmon and whitling and placed them under the name of Salmo eriox of Linnasus. But Yarrell again reverted to there being only two species, but which he considei-ed were both found
. British and Irish Salmonidæ. Salmonidae. 152 SALMONIDiE OF BRITAIN. similarly sLaped tail-fin. And twootlier forms of sea trout witb nearly even tail fins, Salmo trutta and S. eriox, the latter being the gray salmon or scurf of WillougliLy and Ray, tlie sewin of Donovan, and also the whitling or phinoc, tlie grilse of the northern sea trout; showing that these authors united the Welsh sewin with the northern gray salmon and whitling and placed them under the name of Salmo eriox of Linnasus. But Yarrell again reverted to there being only two species, but which he considei-ed were both found in the northern and southern portions of the British Isles. During the last quarter of a century much has been written upon our indigenous sea trout, but the number of species has only been augmented (if we omit the estuary forms) by restoring the grilse of the northern form of sea trout to the rank of a species, but ignoring the scientific name Salmo albns, which had been bestowed on it a century ago, and S. phinoc given it by Turton and re-naming it Salmo hrachypoma, Giinther,* while this latter author suggested that salmon: his phinoc to the grilse stage of the sea trout: his .S'. trutta to the salmon-trout, and his gray trout to the sewin. Agassiz, 1834, included all forms of sea trout under Salmo trutta. Jenyns, 1835, admitted the buU-or-gray-trout Salmo eriox, which he considered identical with the sewin of Donovan, having an even tail and vomerine teeth confined to its anterior extremity, observing that in the Tweed the young are termed whitlings, while he thought that ,S'. huclio of Fleming must be identical. He gave secondly the sea trout, S. trutta, having the vomerine teeth extending the whole way and the gill-cover slightly produced behind, with the margin rounded ; he considered Pennant's white fish or the Salmo albus, as the herling, whiting or phinoc, to be the young of this latter race. Yarrell, 1836, beheved we possessed two species of sea trout, (1) the gr
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