THE BROOK TROUTS OR CHARS. 



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extensively salted at Kodiak in the sea-run condition under the name of 

 Salmon Trout. Examples of twenty-four inches in length are known. 

 The Greenland Trout, Salvelinus stagnalis, a native of Arctic- 

 America, is believed by Bean to be, with little doubt, the " Sea Trout " 

 of Labrador, and of Canada. It rivals the Atlantic Salmon in size, and 

 has no near connection with the " Sea Trout " of Europe. It is interest- 

 ing to know that the anglers have probably been in the right antl the 

 ichthyologists wrong in regard to this interesting species, concerning 

 which as yet we know very little. Hallock and others of our anglers 

 have described its qualities as an angling fish very fully. S. stagnalis 

 occurs in the lakes of Greenland. The National Museum has specimens 

 from Disko, taken by Ensign Dresel, and from Labrador, obtained by 

 Turner. 



THE OQUASSA OR BLl"E BACK TROUT. 



Salvelinus oqiiassa, inhabits the lakes in Western Maine ; thence intro- 

 duced into New York and New Hampshire. This is, says Bean, a small 

 species, not known to exceed ten inches in length from existing collections. 

 It is probably a land-locked form oi S. stagnalis, and specimens of much 

 larger size may be expected. Its distribution, also, will be found to be 

 more extensive. 



Closely related to the Oquassa is the Saibling, introduced into Massa- 

 chusetts, New York, New Hampshire and Wisconsin, which, according 

 to Bean, closely resembling some of our native Chars as to make its 

 recognition difficult. A hybrid between the Saibling and our common 

 Brook Trout has further increased the trouble of identification. 



This form, whether it be regarded as a single species or several related 

 species, is distributed over all of Northwestern Europe, and possibly also 

 over a portion of Asia, although, since the Asiatic representatives of the 



