52 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



18.— NOTE OIV THE USE OF THE MAliE SAIiMOlV HOOK A^H THE BUN 



OF 18S3. 



By ^WII.I.IAM ]\EY A. HABERSHAM. 



[From a letter to Prof. S. F, Band.] 



Lying down on my stomach, on a rock in a pool where I sat and 

 killed many salmon with a fly, I observed in July and August the male 

 use his hook on the female, pressing her neck in his mouth, just as he 

 does in spawning time, showing the use of it long before that period. 



The run of salmon this year was very fair, and the fish more plump 

 than I ever saw them before. When I had the pool to myself, I killed 

 about half a ton a week. I remark this because,' for several years back, 

 there have been all kinds of predictions that the supply was disappear- 

 ing, the Canadian often ascribing it to breeding houses, whereas it is 

 well known to all the intelligent old Indians that their appearance and 

 disappearance used to be the same in spearing time. Salmon flocked 

 in crowds for two and three years consecutively and then disappeared 

 in a similar way. This year the supply on the Eestigouche main Eiver 

 was great, and very small on its branches, the Matapedia and Upsal- 

 quitch. 



Savannah, Ga., November 27, 1883. 



19.— AMERICA IV I.AKE TROUT AIVSJ ^VHITEFBSH IIV FRANCE. 



By I?l©N§IEtJR BAWMEYEE. 



[Extract from letter to the Society of Accliniatizatiou.*] 



I have just visited the inscicultural establishments of Yirelles and 

 Chaulieu, and I have had the pleasure of ascertaining that the eggs of 

 the omble-chevalier {Salmo salvelinns)^ which you had the kindness to 

 send me, are all hatched. It is the same way with the Coregonus aUnis and 

 with the Salmo namaycHsh, which came out equally well, and the young 

 alevins are full of life. In regard to the eggs of trout from the lake of 

 Garde sent recently, we are expecting them to hatch every day. We 

 have lost scarcely 3 per cent, of these eggs. The most assiduous at- 

 tention is given to these different species, and I am happj^to communi- 

 cate its good results. Everything leads to the expectation that the 

 period of alevinage will be as i)rosperous as that of incubation. 



* Bulletin Meusnel de la Socidt6 Nat ionale d'Acclimatation de France. Mara, 1883. 

 pp. 173, 174. 



