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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Mr Yarrell told me he had seen a trout so full of salmon spawn. CUL-DAR205.2.130. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.2 contains notes on means of distribution.

The brown crayon number '18' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Migration.

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Mr Yarrell told me he had seen a trout so full of salmon spawn that when mouth opened he cd see gorged full.—

Has been several times told Fish appear in the Tanks in a wonderful manner in India after having been dried up, & Yarrell thought the one might be dried in mud. But Sir Proby Cautley tells me once was walking over the damp mud at bottom of dried tank & found two fish of considerable size quite alive.

A bird feeding on or diving amongst spawn might have some adhere to beak legs or plunge, & be suddenly sprung before time to clean feathers.— Royle knew about Fish falling on Roofs.—

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