. British and Irish Salmonidae. Salmon. 160 SALMONID^ OF BRITAIN. on this fish. No. 3 male, 8'2 inches long, csecal pylori 50 : length of head ^f in the entire length. Few spots below the lateral-line. Dorsal fin spotted, its upper-anterior corner black : pectoral very dark : caudal dark edged. No. 4, 8'1 inches long : csecal pylori 40 : length of head 4A in the entire length. Only a few black spots below the lateral-line: dorsal fin spotted with black and having its upper-anterior margin with a white edge: adipose dorsal edged with orange : pectoral fin reddish except at its edge. Teeth as in
. British and Irish Salmonidae. Salmon. 160 SALMONID^ OF BRITAIN. on this fish. No. 3 male, 8'2 inches long, csecal pylori 50 : length of head ^f in the entire length. Few spots below the lateral-line. Dorsal fin spotted, its upper-anterior corner black : pectoral very dark : caudal dark edged. No. 4, 8'1 inches long : csecal pylori 40 : length of head 4A in the entire length. Only a few black spots below the lateral-line: dorsal fin spotted with black and having its upper-anterior margin with a white edge: adipose dorsal edged with orange : pectoral fin reddish except at its edge. Teeth as in No. 1. No. 5, female, 7'6 inches long: csecal pylori 60 : length of head 4j in the entire length. Upper- anterior corner of dorsal fiu black margined with white. No. 6, 7'8 inches long: csecal pylori 42 : length of head 6i in the entire length. No. 7, 7'5 inches long: Ciecal pylori 43 : length of head 4|- in the entire length. No. 8 in colours was a yellow trout, male, 8'8 inches long: csecal pylori 40: length of head 5 in. the entire length ; colours yellowish, having numerous large red spots surrounded by a light edging: dorsal fin densely spotted, its upper-anterior comer with a black- based white edging: caudal fin red edged. In the foregoing series (excluding No. 8), the colours of the fins graduated towards those of the brook trout: the length of the head of a local example of male brook trout was one-fifth of the entire length of the fish, whereas in these whitlings it varied from 4|^ to 5i in the total: the lower limb of the preopercle in all but one was very short, when the adipose or dead fin was orange the pectoral was light coloured : and the anterior-superior margin of the back fin from being nearly black in some had a white margin in others, while in two there was abso- lutely no black spots at all on this fin. As to the vomerine teeth,* in all a row was present along the hind margin of the head of that bone, and in a more or less complete zig-zag line along its
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