. British and Irish Salmonidae. Salmon. Fig. 32. Head, natural size, of Mg. 33. Head, natural size, of male wMtling, female whiflmg, 8'2 inches long, 11 inches long, cseoal appendages 40. csBcal appendages 50. The Whitling * or Whiting of Cumberland has many local names, being the grilse stage of the salmon-trout (see p. 154). Like the salmon-grilse it has proved a fruitful source of contention to ichthyologists and In July, 1885, the Rev. W. Jackson, , kindly sent me from Carlisle a series of these fishes, furnishing a most complete chain of examples passing from S. trutta on one
. British and Irish Salmonidae. Salmon. Fig. 32. Head, natural size, of Mg. 33. Head, natural size, of male wMtling, female whiflmg, 8'2 inches long, 11 inches long, cseoal appendages 40. csBcal appendages 50. The Whitling * or Whiting of Cumberland has many local names, being the grilse stage of the salmon-trout (see p. 154). Like the salmon-grilse it has proved a fruitful source of contention to ichthyologists and In July, 1885, the Rev. W. Jackson, , kindly sent me from Carlisle a series of these fishes, furnishing a most complete chain of examples passing from S. trutta on one hand to 8. fario on the other. They were individually between 7 and 11 inches in length, and seven of them clearly belonged to the white trout, Salmon albus, of Pennant, which is also known as iSprod-X The following is a brief summary of these fish. No. 1, male, 11 inches long, csecal pylori 40, length of head 5^ in the entire length, three teeth on hind margin of head of vomer, 12 along its body in a zig- zag line. Silvery with b]ack spots above the lateral-line, and two irregtilar rows below it: dorsal fin with a few black spots along its summit and base : pectoral dark edged, the other fins diaphanous. No. 2, female, 9'5 inches long, caecal pylori 46 ; length of head 5 the entire length. Teeth on vomer as in last. Silvery with black spots, dorsal fin dark-spotted and caudal black edged. Many sea lice * Stoddart observed of the Esk, that " in summer a few sea trout, answering the description of whitlings, and weighing from 1 lb. to 3 lb., push their way up, and are generally killed. After them, in July and August, succeed the herlings, and lastly, the biUs or ; ..." The far- famed bull trout of Tarras, a tributary of the Esk, were merely biUs, and, when ' ta'en in season,' herhngs or whitens, the latter being another local name for the same description of fish " (p. 230). •j- Pennant, in 1776, remarked that " this species migrates out of the
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