TROUT

(Lat. trutta.) This name is restricted properly and specifically to the Salmo fario of Linnaeus; but IS applied in a generic sense to other native species of Salmo, the S. eriox of Linnseus, which is the S. salar of Rondelet i us, being called the bull-trout and grey trout; the Salmo ferox, the great grey tfout, or lake-trout; the S. trutta, the salmon-trout, .. The common trout inhabits most of our lakes and rivers, and is subject to many varieties of colour, proportions, and even of internal structure, as in the stomach of the gillaroo-trout, according to the variations of soil and food. The season of spawning with the trout is generally in the month of October, at which period the gravid fish make their way up the stream to the shallows. Trouts are in finest condition from the end of May to September. TRO' [s. 1278]