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  • Becky wv: lordi - "oh lordi Mabel, we gots us an ant problem again!"

    Oh, Bugger 2009

  • The 1866 description of lordi cannot be positively identified as to species, but S. malma lordi is commonly used in the literature for the southern Dolly Varden of North America.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The earliest scientific name that might apply to the southern Dolly Varden of North America is “Salmo lordi,” a name published in 1866 for a char from the Skagit River of Washington and British Columbia.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The earliest scientific name that might apply to the southern Dolly Varden of North America is “Salmo lordi,” a name published in 1866 for a char from the Skagit River of Washington and British Columbia.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The 1866 description of lordi cannot be positively identified as to species, but S. malma lordi is commonly used in the literature for the southern Dolly Varden of North America.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The 1866 description of lordi cannot be positively identified as to species, but S. malma lordi is commonly used in the literature for the southern Dolly Varden of North America.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The 1866 description of lordi cannot be positively identified as to species, but S. malma lordi is commonly used in the literature for the southern Dolly Varden of North America.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The earliest scientific name that might apply to the southern Dolly Varden of North America is “Salmo lordi,” a name published in 1866 for a char from the Skagit River of Washington and British Columbia.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The earliest scientific name that might apply to the southern Dolly Varden of North America is “Salmo lordi,” a name published in 1866 for a char from the Skagit River of Washington and British Columbia.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The family we had gone to see, were perhaps a little too elegant for such a set-out, for I had seen them in Rome with mi-lordi and monsignori, at their six o'clock dinners; but the quiet good sense with which everybody dropped into their own distinctive habits at home, caused me to make a comparison between them and ourselves, much to the disadvantage of the latter.

    A Residence in France Cooper, J Fenimore 1836

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