. The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings . voracious as this ; forit devours, with eagerness, almost every thing eatable that comos inits way. ABDOMINAL FISK, OF THE SALMON TRIBE. These fish are distinguished from all others, by having two , of which the hinderraost is fleshy and without rays. Dicy haveteeth both in the
. The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings . voracious as this ; forit devours, with eagerness, almost every thing eatable that comos inits way. ABDOMINAL FISK, OF THE SALMON TRIBE. These fish are distinguished from all others, by having two , of which the hinderraost is fleshy and without rays. Dicy haveteeth both in the jaws and on the tongue; and the body is coveredwith round and minutely striated scales. Rapid and stony rivers, where the water is free from mud, are thefavorite places of most of the Salmon tribe. Some of them do indeedinhabit the sea; but they come up the rivers for the purpose ofdepositing their spawn in the beds of gravel ; and in this instinctivepursuit they are able to surmount wonderful obstacles that opposetheir course. After spawning, they return to the sea lean andemaciated. The whole tribe is supposed to afford wholesome food formankind. THE COMMON SALMON. This fish seems, in a great measure, confined to the northern seas,being unknown in the Mediterranean, and in the waters of other warm. climates. It lives in fresh as well as in salt waters, forcing itself inautumn up the rivers, sometimes for hundreds of miles, for thej)arpose of dejiositing its s})awn. In these peregrinations it is thatSalmon are caught in the great numbers that su[)ply our markets andtables. Intent only on the object of their journey, they spring upcataracts, and over other obstacles of very great height. This extra-ordinary power seems to be owing to a sudden jerk which the tishgives to its body, from a bent into a straight position. Where the water is low, or where sand-banks intervene, they throwthemselves on one side, ajid in that position soon work themselvesover into the deep water beyond
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