A History of British Fishes, Volumen2John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row., 1841 |
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abdominal adipose fin anal fin aperture appearance bait barbule belly BLOCH body branchial breadth Brit British Fishes brown caudal fin caudal rays caught CHONDROPTERYGII coast colour common Cornwall Couch CUVIER described dorsal and anal dorsal fin edge Eels elongated eyes female figure fin-rays in number fishermen FLEM flesh GADIDE genus gill-covers Gwyniad half half-way head inches in length Ireland irides JENYNS Lacépède lake Lamprey lateral line LINNEUS longest lower jaw male membrane mouth nearly nose observed operculum Parnell Parr pectoral fin PENN Pennant Pilchard placed pond posterior pounds Règne Risso river rounded Salmon says scales season Shad Shark shore side silvery Skate skin smooth snout spawn species specimen spines spots SUBBRACHIAL MALACOPTERYGII tail taken teeth Trout Twaite Shad upper jaw ventral fins Vert Vertebræ vignette vomer Whitebait whole length WILLUGHBY young Zool
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Página 586 - The entire length, from the point of the nose to the end of the tail, is seven feet ten inches ; and the height three feet six inches.
Página 204 - The boat is moored in the tideway, where the water is from 2.1 to 30 feet deep ; and the net, with its wooden framework, is fixed to the side of the boat. The tail of the hose, swimming loose, is from time to time handed into the boat, the end untied, and its contents shaken out. The wooden frame forming the mouth of the net does not dip more than four feet below the surface of the water...
Página 102 - ... which are to be found moving about on the surface under banks and sheltered places. The Trout fed with worms grew slowly, and had a lean appearance ; those nourished on minnows, which, it was observed, they darted at with great voracity, became much larger ; while such as were fattened upon flies only, attained in a short time prodigious dimensions, weighing twice as much as both the others together, although the quantity of food swallowed by them was in nowise so great.
Página 137 - ... that it was brought to England by the monks, is unsupported by any evidence. It is found in the Eden and the Esk in Cumberland, in the Clyde in Lanarkshire, and in the Orkney Islands. It is plentiful in many parts of Europe, and equally in Switzerland and in Lapland. It inhabits clear streams, with rocky or gravelly bottoms, and 'seems to require an alternation of stream and pooL...
Página 229 - Wratse. (Labrus maculatus.) parts of our coast ; it is about eighteen inches long, of a red colour above, pale orange beneath, and adorned with bluish green oval spots ; the fins and tail are green, with a few red spots, the dorsal fin is spotted at the base. The length of the head compared to the whole length of the fish is as one to four, and the depth of the body is equal to the length of the head. The fin-rays are, dorsal, 20 + 1 1 ; pectoral, 15 ; ventral, 1 + 5 ; anal, 3 + 9 ; caudal, 13.
Página 64 - ... of the length of the head, and compared to the length of the whole fish, is as one to seven ; the first ray of the dorsal fin arises half-way between the point of the nose and the end of the fleshy portion of the tail ; the third ray of the dorsal fin, which is the longest, is of the same length as the base of the fin ; the pectoral fin...
Página 45 - Shaw has justly observed, that, if parr was actually a distinct species, the result of their attendance on the female salmon would be universal and irremediable confusion among these migratory inhabitants of rivers, " from the circumstance of the male parrs in a breeding state occupying, in great numbers, the very centre of the salmon spawning bed ; while the female salmon herself is at the same instant pouring thousands of her ova into the very spot were they are thus genially congregated.
Página 458 - The species of this genus are remarkable for being provided with the means of suddenly assuming a globular form by swallowing air, which, passing into the crop or first stomach, blows up the whole animal like a balloon. The abdominal region being thus rendered the lightest, the body turns over, the stomach...
Página 10 - Salmon at the falls of Kilmorac. For this purpose a kettle was placed upon the flat rock on the south side of the fall, close by the edge of the water, and kept full and boiling. There is a considerable extent of the rock where tents were erected, and the whole was under a canopy of overshadowing trees. There the company are said to have waited until a Salmon fell into the kettle and was boiled in their presence.
Página 187 - Pilchard, with a slight difference in the size of the mesh. The net is suspended by its upper edge from the drift-rope by various shorter and smaller ropes called buoyropes ; and considerable practical skill is required in the arrangement, that the net may hang with the meshes square, smooth, and even in the water, and at the proper depth ; for, according to the wind, tide, situation of their food, and other causes, the Herrings swim at various distances below the surface.