SCIENTIFIC SURVEY. n'j 



Sub-class Teleostei. Salmonoid^. 



Landing, Dutchess county, N. Y., who caught it in the upper 

 affluent of Union river, Me., during the middle of September. I 

 propose the name of Salmo Gloveri as a token of gratitude. 



Salmo namaius, Guv. 

 This species of trout, according to the observations of Prof. 

 Agassiz, is found in the eastern waters of New Hanapshire, (and 

 probably the adjacent waters of Maine.) In the proceedings of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. VI, p. 518, " Prof. Agassiz 

 remarked that of the European species of Salmo, the Salmo salar, 

 Linn, (common salmon,) is found on both sides of the Atlantic, 

 while the Salmo eryox, Linn, called Salmo namatus by Cuvier, 

 remarkable for the hook in the lower jaw of the male, and differing 

 from the other in color and shape, has been hitherto considered as 

 confined to Europe. But, on the 29th of October a fish of the latter 

 species was caught in the Merrimac river and examined by him — 

 another example of Arctic species coming down on the American 

 as well as the European coast." 



It may not be improper here to state that no part of the world 

 affords finer trout fishing, or a greater variety of trouts than Maine. 

 At all times of the year, except in April and May, there are capital 

 opportunities for the angler to exercise his skill and gratify his 

 taste in the " gentle art." During those two months, probably on 

 account of the breaking up of the ice and the consequent disturbance 

 in the waters, they do not bite freely ; but in summer and autumn, 

 either on lake or by stream and brooklet, or during mid-winter, in 

 deep lake water, through the ice, they can be caught in great abun- 

 dance. In our large rivers, as in the upper Penobscot for instance, 

 in warm weather, they abound near the mouths of the cool water 

 spring brooks, and can be caught in unlimited numbers. In sum- 

 mer no better sport of the*kind can be found than that afforded to 

 the amateur by fly-fishing for the salmon trout on the Schoodic 

 Lakes, in Washington county, or on Sebago Lake in Cumberland 

 county, as well as in many other parts of Maine. 



In October, the streams which flow into our numerous lakes in 

 everj^ part of the State, and especially those on the frontier, are 

 crowded with trouts of the different species which, impelled by 

 their natural instincts, are hurrying up to the shoal waters to 

 spawn. Barrels of them are then caught and preserved by the 

 provident settler for domestic use during winter. 



