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outlet of any kind. The fish weighed twenty 

 pounds, and had evidently been placed in the lake 

 by a fisherman who had caught it, when small, in 

 the Hudson River years before it was taken from 

 the lake. 



The maximum extent of growth of the ouan- 

 aniche appears to be about eight pounds, and it is 

 perhaps only equalled in game qualities by the lady 

 or bony fish of southern salt waters, which, from 

 the moment it feels the restraint of capture, leaps 

 from the water and seems to be dancing on its tail 

 until landed. Certainly no fish of fresh water is 

 the equal of the ouananiche, which is pronounced 

 " whon-an-ishe " by the Montagnais Indians of the 

 Lake St. John region. 



The ouananiche has no important structural 

 peculiarities by which it may be known on sight 

 from the landlocked salmon of other waters, al- 

 though those of the Metabetchunan River (an inlet) 

 and the Grande Decharge (the outlet) of Lake St. 

 John are said to have heavier and longer upper 

 jaws than the Sebago fish, and the longest ray of 

 the dorsal fin is slightly shorter, and the adipose 

 fin also shorter in the last named fish than in the 

 ouananiche. It is also said that the tail of the 

 latter is slightly more forked than the former fish. 

 All these differences may, however, be entirely due 



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