TI)e (American ^^ibling, 



or Ciolden Troat. — Salvelinus Sunapee (Webber and Quackenbos, 

 1886); Salvelinus Aureohis (Bean, 1888); Salvelinus Alpinus 

 Aureohis (Jordan, 1891). 



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N the summer of 18S2, anglers first 

 began to hear of the capture of a 

 large, silvery, deep water trout at 

 Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire. For 

 several years this fish was known as 

 the St. John River trout, on the pre- 

 sumption that it was descended from 

 certain yearlings rumored to have been 

 introduced into Sunapee from the St. 

 John River, New Brunswick, in 1867, 

 but which really came from Grand 

 Lake, Maine, and were ouananiche. 

 The conspicuous development of the 

 under jaw in the males led to the local 

 names of "hawk-bill" and "hook- 

 bill ; " the silvery sides of the fish in 

 summer gave rise to that of "white 

 trout." 



In October, 1885, George F. Pea- 

 body, now of Sunapee, then a resident 

 of the east shore, accidently came upon 

 a mid-lake spawning-bed, an acre or 

 two in area, covered with hundreds of the new trout ranging from three to ten 

 pounds in weight. He promptly notified the Fish Commissioners of his find, and 

 specimens were sent to Washington and Cambridge for identification. They proved 

 to be representatives of a highly variable Alpine charr, distributed through the 

 Dominion of Canada, Labrador, and Greenland, but whose presence in United States 

 waters was unsuspected. 



This charr is now believed to be aboriginal to Lake Sunapee, as well as to Flood's 

 Pond, in the town of Otis, near Ellsworth, Maine. The water of both these lakes is 

 deep and exceptionally pure and cold. Lake Sunapee is a true ancient rock-basin, as 



A LANO-LOCKED SALMON. 



