. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. finger markswhich entitle it to be called a Parr, and which it retains while remain-ing in fresh water, sometimes until it is seven or eight inches long. Itcontinues a Parr until the second or third spring, when, in prepara-tion for, or perhaps in consequence of, a descent toward the sea, a uni-form bright silvery coat is assumed, and the Parr becomes a remaining from four to twenty-eight months in the salt water itagain seeks its native ri
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. finger markswhich entitle it to be called a Parr, and which it retains while remain-ing in fresh water, sometimes until it is seven or eight inches long. Itcontinues a Parr until the second or third spring, when, in prepara-tion for, or perhaps in consequence of, a descent toward the sea, a uni-form bright silvery coat is assumed, and the Parr becomes a remaining from four to twenty-eight months in the salt water itagain seeks its native river, having become either a Grilse or a Sal-mon. The Grilse is the adolescent Salmon ; it weighs from two tosix pounds, and is more slender and graceful than the mature fish, withsmaller head, thinner scales, more forked tail, and spots rounder, morenumerous, and bluish rather than jetty black. The two may easily bedistinguished even though both should be of the same size, as not unfre-quently happens. The male Grilse is sexually mature, but not the female,in America ; in Europe the same is claimed for the male Parr and thefemale A PARK. There is nothing in the water, says Norris, that surpasses a Grilse 452 AMERICAN FISHES. in its symmetrical beauty, its brilliancy, its agility, and its pluck. Ihave had one of four pounds to leap from the water ten times, and higherand further than a Sahiion. Woe to the angler who attempts, withoutgiving line, to hold one even of three pounds ; he does it at the risk of hiscasting line, or his agile opponent tears a piece from its jaw or snout in itsdesperate effort to escape. Mr. Atkins calls attention to the fact that the great run of Grilse whichis so prominent a feature in Canada and Europe is almost entirely absentin the rivers of the United States, the fish not returning until they havebecome adult. In rivers where Grilse are found, the Salmon always pre-cede them in their ascent, for the former do not enter fresh water untiltow
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