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Salmon preserved in salt Nov 4th
[[underlined]] Largest males [[/underlined]] Above grayish olive with few spots - sides pale salmon - red belly paler- & white fins tinged with yellow & black towards tips. Opercula & flanks with silvery reflections 15 lbs

[[underlined]] Smaller male & female [[/underlined]] Back dark dusky olive, spots, black, belly silver white (no red tints)- Cheeks silvery-
Coloring seems to vary with age & size
sex not discernible by shape &c
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[[underlined]] Keg No [[/underlined]] 1 contains [[underlined]] Fish [[/underlined]] No.1 Trout- 2 Flat fish- 3 Cotti (large) 4 Herring- 5 Cotti (small) 
-6 Viviparous F. - 7 Sticklebacks 8 [[underlined]] mollusc [[underlined]] 
[[underlined]] Reptiles | Entamia 4- 2 Toads- 3 [[Solen?]] ? [[/underlined]] 

[[Jas Drot?]] contains Mammals- W.F. mouse
2 shrews- Reptiles 3 Frogs. 4 Tree frog
5 Newts - Crawfish - 2 sp Shrimp-
Limax -*Crabs- 8 Eel like fish.
Keg? Novr 25- Cottus No 8 (Sharks No 9)

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[[underlined]] Toad [[/underlined]] Sept 1st Colors back 
Olive brown lighter on head darker towards hind legs- Tentacles dark brown nearly black, spots on legs all surrounded with a narrow border of straw yellow  which becomes greenish on the sides & legs where it is mixed with br'n)
Dorsil strips bright yellow as malt as the under side of thighs & angles of mouth & [[?skin]]
Belly pale brownish white mixed with black spots towards & under hind legs. Iris rich gold with black veins & spots at each canthus -
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11 ✓[[underline]] Mole          Sept 5th [[/underline]] 6 1/4 tail 1 1/4 [[Salm?]] 1/2 wide nose 1/2
18 ✓[[underline]] [[?Ianincas]]   "                     11 Ear 1/2 Rad 1 Tass. L. Tib 1 3/4 [[/underline]]
Cottus                             "      7 Colosa Back. Olive [[?supre]] or less mixed with black & with three [[?less\lines]] of black across body - Sides silvery with purplish tints, bill white Pectoral fins white at base with three black bars towards end alternating with pale yellow.  Tail pale with olive bars.  Iris bright bronze - Largest palest -
✓ 21 Toad Sept 9th  Colors Back bright olive, tuberales browner, sides paler tub's yellow belly grayish white & bluish bn inside of thigh spots dark brown black on sides & extremities  Iris golden with brown circle & green [[?lip]]