. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . in taste. THE This is a of prey, has a short, roundish head, blunt nose, ana wiaemouth, filled with teeth, not only in the jaws, but on the palate and tongue;the scales are small, the back ash color, the sides yellow, and, when in sea-son, it is sprinkled all over the body and covers of the gills with small beau-tiful red and black spots; the tail is broad. The colors of the trout, and its spots, vary greatly in different waters, aidin different sea
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . in taste. THE This is a of prey, has a short, roundish head, blunt nose, ana wiaemouth, filled with teeth, not only in the jaws, but on the palate and tongue;the scales are small, the back ash color, the sides yellow, and, when in sea-son, it is sprinkled all over the body and covers of the gills with small beau-tiful red and black spots; the tail is broad. The colors of the trout, and its spots, vary greatly in different waters, aidin different seasons; yet each may be reduced to one species. In Llyndiri,a lake in South Wales, are trouts called cochy-dail, marked with red andblack spots as big as sixpences; others unspotted, and of a reddish hue, thatsometimes weigh near ten pounds, but are bad tasted. In Lough Neagh, in Ireland, trouts are called buddaghs, which sometimesweigh thirty pounds. Trouts are common in all the mountainous parts of the United Stateseast of tae Alleghany ridge. i Salmo trutta, Lin. * ScUino fario, Lih. PISCES— GRAYLING. 731 THE SMELT!. Inhabits the northern seas, and is never found so far south as ihe Mediter-ranean. Its name is supposed to be a contraction of smell it, from itsvery agreeable smell. The Germans, however, call it the stink-fish. Itsform is very elegant; it is of a silvery color, tinged Avith yellow; and theskin is almost transparent. The largest we have heard of was thirteeninches long, and weighed half a pound. THE GRAYLING2
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