. British and Irish Salmonidae. Salmon. Fig. 27. Head, | natural size, of female salmon-trout, 12-3 inolies long. Fig. 28. Head, J natural size, of male salmon-trout, 20 inches long. The race of Sea trout* generally considered as our northern one,t is also known as the Salmon or Bull trout; Gray salmon of the Tweed; Round-tail in the Annan; Scurf, Scurve, or Salmon-scurf of the Tees, likewise as Gochivie near the mouth of that river; Fordwich trout (cs3C. 60) ; Candlemas gray, a kelt in Cumberland and In the grilse-stage in Scotland, as PJiinoc or FinnocJc,^ Herling, Moudie-trou
. British and Irish Salmonidae. Salmon. Fig. 27. Head, | natural size, of female salmon-trout, 12-3 inolies long. Fig. 28. Head, J natural size, of male salmon-trout, 20 inches long. The race of Sea trout* generally considered as our northern one,t is also known as the Salmon or Bull trout; Gray salmon of the Tweed; Round-tail in the Annan; Scurf, Scurve, or Salmon-scurf of the Tees, likewise as Gochivie near the mouth of that river; Fordwich trout (cs3C. 60) ; Candlemas gray, a kelt in Cumberland and In the grilse-stage in Scotland, as PJiinoc or FinnocJc,^ Herling, Moudie-trout, or in the northern English rivers as Whitlings or Whitings,\\ also Lammasmenii in the Edinburgh market for August ones, while some unclean sea- trout are termed thus in the river Allan, and gull of August, and mort of the Cumberland rivers. White trout, Ireland. In the smolt-stage, as Sprod, in Cumber- land, also sea-trout grilse are sometimes so termed; while the^ par in Scotland and those becoming smolts are known as Orange-fins or Yellow-fins, Blach-tails, Silver- whites, Silver-grays and Burn-tails in the Tyne, and in Cumberland as Smelt-sprods and Herring-sprods. A correspondent of Land and Water (March 27th, 1880), gave the following as the Gaelic names of salmon-trout in the north of Scotland : geal- bhreac and hricean, and sea-trout as ireac-sail and hreac-mara, and salmon-fry as min-iasg and siol-hradain, and trout of any kind as hreac or bricean—also of salmon-trout in Ireland as colagan. B. x-sii, D. 12-14 (^_tV) I 0, P. 13-14, V. 9, A. 11-13 (f:^), C. 19-21, L 1. 115-130, L t. ff:|i Vert. 57-60, Ca3c. pyl. 33-61. Body rather elongated, but not so elegantly shaped as in the salmon, being thicker and shorter in proportion: the abdominal profile more curved than that of the back. The proportions of one part of the body to the remainder vary con- siderably, while the head is longer in males than in females; irrespective of which, there appears to be a disposition i
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