. British fresh water fishes. Fishes -- Great Britain. JllVE^ 5 GENE, j_ANGDAlE. Order IV. PHYSOSTOMT. Family SALMONID^. Sub-generic Group—-Salmones. Pull €^rout. (Salmo The Scurf, Trutta salmonata, and Bull Trout, etiam dicta, Salmo eriox, Grev Trout, Roundtail, WiLLUGHBY, Hist. Pise. p. 193. Yarrell, Brit. Fish. ii. p. 71. nVT"0 distinct species," says Dr. Giinther, "is designated by this name (Bull Trout); at -'^^ all events the name is applied to different species at different localities, and by different persons. We have received numerous examples of S. fruffa under
. British fresh water fishes. Fishes -- Great Britain. JllVE^ 5 GENE, j_ANGDAlE. Order IV. PHYSOSTOMT. Family SALMONID^. Sub-generic Group—-Salmones. Pull €^rout. (Salmo The Scurf, Trutta salmonata, and Bull Trout, etiam dicta, Salmo eriox, Grev Trout, Roundtail, WiLLUGHBY, Hist. Pise. p. 193. Yarrell, Brit. Fish. ii. p. 71. nVT"0 distinct species," says Dr. Giinther, "is designated by this name (Bull Trout); at -'^^ all events the name is applied to different species at different localities, and by different persons. We have received numerous examples of S. fruffa under this denomination ; I have also seen stuffed examples of 'Bull Trout,' each of them of a peculiar aspect, but without any characters by which the species could be determined. It would appear that many examples somewhat differing in general aspect from 5. tyiitta are named Bull ;— {Catalogue, vi. p. 23, note.) In his Addenda (p. 356) the same learned ichthyologist thus writes of a fine male sterile specimen of Salmo salar three feet long, caught in the Beauly at the beginning of April, and presented by Lord Lovat as "Bull Trout:"—"Whilst this sheet was passing through the press, Lord Lovat's kindness afforded me an opportunity of seeing other specimens of 'Bull Trout,' at the moment when taken out of the water. It is his opinion that at least some of the fish are hybrids between the .Salmon and -Sea Trout ( 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 Houghton, W. (William), 1828-1895; Lydon, A. F. (Alexander Francis), 1836-1917, ill. London [etc. ] : W. Mackenzie
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