112 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Sub-class Teleostei. Salmonoid^. 



position ; it is thick and furnished with a prominent ridge and three 

 foramina upon its anterior surface. 



This trout inhabits many of the great lakes and deep mountain 

 tarns of Maine and New Brunswick, but it is believed not to exist 

 in those of Eastern New Brunswick, which singular hiatus in its 

 distribution, perhaps may be explained by the absence of deep 

 waters in that country. It haunts the deepest waters, where the 

 cold or the repose to which it leads, favors that development and 

 conservation of fat which is indeed a characteristic, and it steals 

 forth in quiet at the approach of twilight or at early morn, to the 

 shoals and the shores in quest of its prey, which consists, for the 

 most part, of the Lota and Gyprinidm, but its baffled voracity often 

 contents itself with substances entirely foreign, as its stomach 

 presents sometimes a heterogeneous mass of bones, leaves, twigs, 

 and fragments of decaj^ed wood. 



Its habits vary in some localities ; in certain lakes they are bold, 

 and ranging near the surface, at times may be taken by trolling, 

 but never rising to the fly, whilst in other lakes they are timid and 

 seek the obscurest recesses ; thus, for instance, their existence in 

 the Tunk Lakes, was unknown for more than half a century to the 

 inhabitants living near their shores. 



Its mysterious nature has furnished the all-observing Indian with 

 some proper idioms, and it appears again in the vague mythology 

 and wild legends of that almost extinct race. Its names are vari- 

 ous among the different tribes, and if the present are not of the 

 half-breed Canadian date, they are perhaps of recent origin, since 

 the few remaining dialects have changed greatly within a century 

 past. Considering then, the uncertainty of its ancient name and 

 the diversity of its synonym, I propose my friend Toma of the 

 Openangos. — Copied from a brochure on the Togue, published by A. 

 G. Hamlin, M. D., Bangor. 



Salmo sebago, Girard. 



Sebago lake trout, Salmon trout. (?) 



The following is a description of a species of trout taken in 



Sebago lake, Cumberland county, in this State, by Dr. Girard, and 



published by him in the proceedings of the American Academy of 



Natural Sciences, Penn., Aug. 16th, 1853. 



I am inclined to think that this species is identical with that 



