TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ORLEANS COUNTY SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



May 23, 1 87 1. 

 Excursion to West Newport. 



Dr. HiNMAN presiding. 



Several specimens were collected during the fore- 

 noon and obser\'ations of the general features of the 

 region around West Newport were made, but the 

 weather being rather too cool the party repaired to 

 the residence of Mr. Benj. Hoyt, who kindly, furnished 

 a dinner, and room to hold the exercises in. 



l^ish. — Mr. Hoit was an old fisherman on Lake 

 Memphremagog, and stated that there were two spe- 

 cies of Muscalonge Trout {Sal»w nan;a) cus/i, Peuuer, ',) 

 in the lake, one commonly called Black Longe, the 

 other White or Silver l.onge, the latter much the 

 largest, the former was seldom taken above 20 inches 

 in length. These two ;ipparently distinct varieties 

 are in all probability produced by the nature of the 

 bottom of the lake where the fish are accustomed to 

 stay. In the middle and northern portions the bottom 

 is black mud from the decomposing beds of dark car- 

 boniferous limestone and slates that skirt the lake in 

 those sections. The Longe remain most of the time on 

 the bottom in deep water and must partake more or 

 less of the colouring matter that impregnates the water 

 in which they live. 



Dr. Currier remarked, that the Brook Trout (^^Z- 

 mo fontinalis, Mitchell.) v,'h.\c\). were so plentiful in 



