SALMO TRUTTA.
SALMO ALDUS OF DK. FLEMING, IIERLING OF TUE SOLWAY.
THE figures on this Plate are given to represent the fisli of ilie Solway Firth to n-hich Professor Fleming applied the naiiK'
of Salmo Albus. They are young states of the migratory Trout, and die Plate should be placed, when ilie illustrations are
completed, as continuing the series, between Nos. XI . and X. of our Second Part.
The commcQcement of the run of liis fish, or of its fii'St return to the fresh waters, after loaviiig tiiom in the <lres.s of
our Plate No. XL, takes place generally about the end of June, continues through July and the greater part of August,
and during this period they are taken in great ahundnnce, oOen to tlie overstocking of the markets. Like other species, they
are subject to almost every modification in the spotting, and some are considerably darker, whUe others show the same sandy
tiut as that of the centre figure in Plate No. X. Those we hav e represented may be considered of the average size, and oC
the prevailing colour and markings.
Some of these fish ascend the smaller stre
shallow fords; but a great proporUon of tliem s<
dress or swte ; and they all again seek tlic si
s, and assuming the dark scaling of the breeding sea.'ion, s p a ^ on the
1 to remain in the pools of the larger rivers without attaining a spawninR
a jieriod somewhat earlier than the Comraon Salmon. At this aije the
teeth have not yet begun to be shed fi'om Oie longitudinal surface of the vomer ; but as in the young of the oilier migrators-
Trout, they are sU'onger and larger than those that remain in the gilse state of Salmo Salar of a similar size.
Herling or Hirling, ^VTiiting, Phinnock, Moudie-Trout, SUvcrwhite, Blacktail, &c., are all provincial names given in
different districts of ScoUand to this state of the migratory Trouts, uot including, however, of the DuU-Troul of Beniick
and the Tweed.