PARR

This name is applied in most parts of England and Scotland to the young of the salmon (Salmo salar, Linn.) up to near the end of their second year, when they lose their dark lateral bars by the superaddition of a silvery pigment, and congregate together for their seaward migration. From the circumstance of the milt and roe being developed at this immature period, a precocious condition by no means uncommon in the cold blooded tribes, the parr has been regarded by some ichthyologists as a distinct species, and was described as Bach by Will ugh by and Ray, under the name of Salmo snlmulus. See Salmon. [s. 910]