. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Fishes. 1. SAI^O. 145 the first ray pure white; anal fin brownish red, with two of the rays white; jaws less curved, branchiostegals fewer by one. " Steller believes that the migratory fishes do not live beyond the third year; in the lake, however, they attain an age of many more years. He has had young specimens of this variety of one and two years old, 10 to 14 inches in length, the lower fins of which were bright red, the mandible more or less produced. He relates that a variety occurs not only in this l
. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Fishes. 1. SAI^O. 145 the first ray pure white; anal fin brownish red, with two of the rays white; jaws less curved, branchiostegals fewer by one. " Steller believes that the migratory fishes do not live beyond the third year; in the lake, however, they attain an age of many more years. He has had young specimens of this variety of one and two years old, 10 to 14 inches in length, the lower fins of which were bright red, the mandible more or less produced. He relates that a variety occurs not only in this lake but also in the lake of the island Caraja, very slender in shape, and almost entirely ferruginous, without spots, very unlike the ordinary variety in appearance. These, he thinks, are hybrids, bom in the lake, and the offspriniT; of female Salmo callaris and of male S. sangvdnolentus, of which species many are carried into these lakes, placed at an exceedingly elevated position, by a certain inundation of the sea, together with S. callaris, and are both immediately seen to commence propagation and soon afterwards to have their sexes in common, which is not without some semblance of ; " It is quite evident that the notes given by Pallas above do not refer to a Charr, none of which migrate to the sea, as far as our present experience goes ; therefore Pallas appears to have joined the life-history of some fish to specimens of a distinct species. As re- gards the fish noticed by Steller, no opinion can be ofiered until the localities mentioned are visited again, and their Salmonoids ex- amined. 17. Salmo leucomaems. ? Salmo kundsha, Pallas, Reise, iii. Append, p. 706 ; Gin. L. p. 1373. Salmo leucomfenis, Pallas, Zoogr. iii. p. 350; Vuv. Sf Val. xxi. p. One of the two specimens from Pallas's Collection, named *S. leu- VOL. VI. L. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabil
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