parr

[Etym. doubtful; cf. Gaelic and Irish brad an a salmon. ( Mahn. ) ] Ichthy.: The popular name of what was formerly believed to be a distinct salmonoid species, Salmo salmulus. "Shaw has demonstrated, in the most conclusive manrer, that those small salmonoids, which are generally called Parr , are the offspring of the salmon, and that many males, from seven to eight inches long, have their sexual organs fully developed, and that their milt has all the impregnating properties of the seminal fluid of a much older and larger fish. That this Parr is not a distinct species-as has been again maintained by Couchis further proved by the circumstance that these sexually mature Parr are absolutely identical in their zoological characters with the immature Parr , which are undoubt edly young salmon, and that no Parr has ever been found with mature ova."-Günther: Study of Fishes , p. 639. IMG:content-0677.png:[blocks in formation] păr-ra, 8. [Lat.=a bird of evil omen, perhaps the wheat-ear.] Ornith.: The typical genus of Parrine (q. v.). [JACANA.]