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were bred. It is well known that the colours, both of the flesh and skin of the trout, 

 in Scotland, bear a relation to the colour and nature of their native streams. On 

 these accounts I have referred them all for the present to the above-mentioned 

 species, leaving to those who are better acquainted with ichthylogy, and have greater 

 opportunities of comparing the different kinds than we possessed, to discriminate 

 them hereafter. 



We frequently observed trout weighing forty pounds, and were informed by the 

 residents that fish of sixty pounds were not very uncommon in particular lakes. In 

 Manito, or God's Lake, between Hill and Severn Rivers, they are reported to attain 

 the enormous size of ninety pounds. The large individuals that we saw, bore "a 

 striking resemblance to the overgrown trout that are occasionally met with in 

 England. They are all, particularly the larger varieties, subject to an incurvature 

 of the lower jaw when out of season, and at that time the teeth appear particularly 



prominent. 



We caught a few trout in the Arctic Sea. They are found also in small land- 

 locked lakes in every part of the country. 



Salmo Gr&nlandicus . Capelan, or Lodde. 



Capelan. Pennant's Arctic Zoology, vol. ii. p. 394. 



Salmo Groenlandicus. Block. 381,/. 1. Clupea Villosa, Gmel. Linn, p. 1409. 



La Lodde. Bonnateire Planches de VEncycL Meth. liv 28. p. 167. 



This curious little fish termed by the Esquimaux angmaggoeuck was met with in 

 Bathurst's Inlet, collected in large shoals on the shallows to spawn. 



Coregonus Albus. White Fish. 



Genus. Salmo. Lin. Coregonus. Artedi. Sub-genus. Coregonus, Cuv. Reg. An. 11. p. 162. 



Salmo Lavarettus, Guiniad and Tickomeg. Pennant's Arctic Zoology, Introduction, p. 298. and vol. ii. p. 



393. (excluding the synonym of British Zoology.) 

 Coregonus Albus. Le Sueur, Journal of Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia, vol, i. 232, with a figure. 



The Cree name of this fish is attihhawmegh, which is corrupted into tittameg by 

 the traders. The Canadian voyagers term it poisson blanc. It is named thloooeh 

 by the Copper Indians. The weight of an ordinary-sized fish is three pounds, but 

 it is not uncommon to meet with individuals weighing eight pounds, and they have 

 been known to reach even twenty pounds. When very fat the shape of the fish is 

 somewhat distorted, as it acquires a hump immediately behind the head. The 

 very large fish increase principally in circumference, their length suffering little 

 augmentation. 



The attihhawmegh seems to prey on insects. Its stomach, however, is generally 

 filled with earth mixed with a few slender roots of vegetables and some small white 



