FOREST, Ly4KE, AND RIVER 



Again, what resources are developed by any 

 other fish to escape from the steel in its jaws or 

 tongue ! The leap, the frantic shake of its body, 

 the wild surge, and the sulk and the desperate 

 sweep down stream, with the tired rodster in full 

 pursuit, and, perhaps, without reward. 



There are two species or varietal forms of the 

 landlocked salmon : one native in Sebago Lake 

 (Maine) and northward, and introduced in various 

 parts of the country. It is known as Salmo salar 

 sebago, or landlocked salmon. The other form is 

 confined in its habitat to Lake St. John, its tribu- 

 taries, and the Saguenay River, but is in its full 

 fighting vigor in the upheaving and tumbling 

 waters of the Grand Discharge, the outlet of Lake 

 St. John. Scientifically it is known as the Salmo 

 salar ouananiche (the latter, an Indian name mean- 

 ing "little salmon"), and among anglers as the 

 "wannanish " or " winninish," names that are pho- 

 netic of the Indian pronunciation of ouananiche. 



The Sebago species attains a weight of about 

 twenty-five pounds, and enters streams as the 

 ouananiche is in the habit of doing, particularly 

 to spawn. Both of the above-named species were 

 formerly regarded as distinct from the sea-going 

 form, Sahno salar, but as no specific anatomical va- 

 riations occur from those of the sea salmon, the 



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