TROUT

(Lat trutta.) This name is restricted properly and specifically Id the Salmo fario of Linnajus; but is appliedinb genetic sense to other native species of Salmo, Ldnnasus, which is the S. salar of Rondelet i us, being called the bull trout and grey trout; the Salmo fitrox. the great grey trout, or lake trout; the S. trutta, the Million trout, &.<:. The common trout inhabits most of our ■i rivers, and is subject to many varieties of colour, proportion*, and even of internal structure, as in the stomach of the L'lllaroo-trout, according to the variations of soil and food. The ■eMOfl ui 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 ition from the end of May to September. TIM i' [s. 1289]