. British and Irish Salmonidæ. Fig. 32. Head, natural size, offemale whitling, 8-2 inches long,otecal appendages 50. Fig. 33. Head, natural size, of male wliitling,11 inches long, crecal appendages 40. The Whitling * or Whiting of Cumberland has many local names, being thegrilse stage of the salmon-trout (see p. 154). Like the salmon-grilse it has proveda fruitful .source of contention to ichthyologists and In July, 1885, theRev. W. Jackson, , kindly sent me from Carlisle a series of these ,furnishing a most complete chain of examples passing from S. trutta on one handto 5.

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. British and Irish Salmonidæ. Fig. 32. Head, natural size, offemale whitling, 8-2 inches long,otecal appendages 50. Fig. 33. Head, natural size, of male wliitling,11 inches long, crecal appendages 40. The Whitling * or Whiting of Cumberland has many local names, being thegrilse stage of the salmon-trout (see p. 154). Like the salmon-grilse it has proveda fruitful .source of contention to ichthyologists and In July, 1885, theRev. W. Jackson, , kindly sent me from Carlisle a series of these ,furnishing a most complete chain of examples passing from S. trutta on one handto 5. fario on the other. They were individually between 7 and 11 inches inlength, and .seven of them clearly belonged to the white trout, Salmon albus, ofPennant, which is also known as The following is a brief summary of thesefish. No. 1, male, 11 inches long, ciBcal pylori 10, length of head 5^ in the entirelength, three teeth on hind margin of head of vomer, 12 along its body in a zig-zag line. Silvery with black spots

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