. The book of the salmon; in two Usefully illustrated with numerous coloured engravings of salmon-flies, and salmon-fry. AN ADULT TROUT. 225 The 6th engraving on plate No. VII. is that ofa salmon-fry of between eight and nine monthsold. In length it is four inches, and it is nowmore deeply marked with transverse bars anddorsal spots than at any other period. Thosespots are sometimes of a pink hue, sometimesthey are purple-coloured, and sometimes latter colour they assume after death. Thefish now resembles the little trout, called the parr;but its fins are much longer than th
. The book of the salmon; in two Usefully illustrated with numerous coloured engravings of salmon-flies, and salmon-fry. AN ADULT TROUT. 225 The 6th engraving on plate No. VII. is that ofa salmon-fry of between eight and nine monthsold. In length it is four inches, and it is nowmore deeply marked with transverse bars anddorsal spots than at any other period. Thosespots are sometimes of a pink hue, sometimesthey are purple-coloured, and sometimes latter colour they assume after death. Thefish now resembles the little trout, called the parr;but its fins are much longer than those of thatlittle fish, and its whole shape is much less per-fect. Kot observing these marks of distinction hasled to the confounding of salmon-fry with parr;calling them, indeed, parr, as Mr. Shaw andhis followers do; whereas the parr is a distinctadult fish, of the river-trout species. I regret that,owing to the season of the year at which I madethe application, I could not get a specimen of theparr, to have it engraved and coloured, and placedside by side with the salmon-fry represented onthe plate I am now describing. I
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