j^ASS OF J_ENY. JrOSSACKS. 



Order IV. 

 PHVSOSTOMI. 



Family 



SALMONIDuE. 



Sub-generic Group — SalmONES. 



Salmo Idcustris, 

 Salmo ferox. 



The Great Lake Tnm/, 



Lake Trout, 

 Salar ferox, 



-^REAT Bake :Jrout. 



{Sah/to /i/vx.) 



Bkrkrnhout, Synopsis of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland, 



lygq, vol. i. ]i. yq. 

 Jardine and Selby, Edinb. New Philosoph. Journal, 1835, xviii. p. 55; 



Jardine's Illustrations of Scotch Salmonidce pi. iv. ; Yarrell, ii. p. iio; 



Richardson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. Fish. p. 144.; GtiNTXHER's Cat. vi. p. 92. 

 Jrnyns' IVIan. p. 425; Thompson's Nat. Hist, of Ireland iv. p. 156; GiJNTHER's 



Cat. vi. p. 92. 

 Couch's Fish. Brit. Is!, iv. p. 222, pi. 217. 

 Cuv. AND Valenc, -xxi. p. 338. 



ONE of the first observers to draw attention to the Great Lake Trout appears to have 

 been John Birkenhout, who gave to it the name of Sahno laciistris, as may be seen in 

 his Synopsis, (quoted above) ; but his description is very brief. He simply writes, (p. 79), 

 Salmo No. 3, " Lacusfris, Lake Trout. Sometimes fifty or sixty pounds weight (?). Probably 

 a distinct species. In the North." If this is our Great Lake Trout, then his specific name 

 has the claim of priority; but as the term lacustris is applied to other SalmonidcE by conti- 



