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salmon taken early in January of the present year. The eggs 

 at the time of capture were in an advanced stage of develop- 

 ment, forming two solid masses, and weighing together not 

 less than three and a half pounds. Allowing from eight to 

 nine thousand eggs to the pound, this fish had not less than 

 nineteen thousand eggs in all. These were of a rich coral 

 color, and very loose in their membrane. The fish itself 

 weighed twenty pounds, and measured three feet two inches 

 in length. 



Iii reply to an inquiry whether this fish was in season, Mr. 

 Buckland determined that it was decidedly the contrary, as 

 December or January is entirely too late for fishing in any 

 English river. 2 A, January 7, 5. 



" LANDLOCKED SALMON." 



Among objects of great interest to American sportsmen, 

 and those prosecuting inquiries in regard to the food-fishes 

 of the country, are the so-called " landlocked salmon," found 

 in Maine and elsewhere, and about which there has been much 

 diversity of opinion. These are known especially as inhabit- 

 ing Sebago Lake and its streams, some tributaries of the Pe- 

 nobscot, the lakes in the neighborhood of Ellsworth, and the 

 Schoodic lakes at the head of a branch of the St. Croix River. 

 This fish has been actually described as a distinct species 

 from Sebago Lake, as Salmo sebago / and from near Ells- 

 worth, Maine, as 8. gloveri y the Schoodic fish being, we be- 

 lieve, without any specific appellation, unless it be S. hardinii 

 of Dr. Giinther, or, according to Agassiz, S. eriox, both Euro- 

 pean species. 



Whether this fish be really a " landlocked salmon" that 

 is to say, a true sea salmon that has changed its habits to 

 such' an extent as to dwell permanently in the fresh waters 

 is the subject of inquiry on the part of Mr. Livingstone Stone, 

 who is rather inclined to take ground in favor of a specific 

 difference. He finds, as might be supposed, that there is no 

 reason for referring the landlocked salmon, whether of three 

 varieties or of only one, to the brook trout, the difference in 

 the size of the scales, the dark spots instead of red, the shape 

 of the head, and many other points, being such as to distin- 

 guish them. On the other hand, the close relationship to the 

 sea salmon is shown in the character of the scales and spots 



