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otters, and the various enemies that it meets with 

 in ascending the rivers, succeeded in depositing 

 its ova, where or how they find room to spawn, 

 or what becomes of the offspring, is more than I 

 know. 



Round-fish are cured by splitting and sun- 

 drying, precisely in the same manner as salmon. 

 I have had very good sport angling for round- 

 fish, by using a rough gaudy fly. They rise 

 readily, and struggle obstinately, when hooked, 

 but soon give up ; turning on their side, they 

 permit themselves to be dragged upon the bank 

 without attempting a flap of resistance. 



Some of these fish remain permanently, or at 

 any rate for some time, in fresh-water. I have 

 often taken them in the Na-hoil-a-pit-ka river, to 

 get into which they must have leaped the 

 Kettle Falls during a high flood, being quite 

 800 miles from the sea; and as they are caught 

 in the spring, I think it fair to conclude they do 

 not invariably return to the sea after spawning. 



HERRINGS.- -The Vancouver Island Herring 

 (Malletta coerulia, Grd.). Sp. Ch.: Head, about 

 one-fifth of the total length of the body, slender, 

 its shape in profile somewhat fusiform; back, 

 bright steel-blue colour, shading away on the 

 sides to brilliant silvery- white ; fins, yellow- white, 



