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is brownish, silvery gray below, with small orange 

 spots on sides and beneath the lateral line. The 

 caudal extremity is grayish, the belly of bright 

 orange and the anal and ventral fins are also of an 

 orange color with their outer edges white. There 

 are no mottlings on the back as appear in the brook 

 trout (fontinalis), which renders it easily distin- 

 guishable from that fish. 



The Oquassa or blueback trout [Salvelinus 

 oquassd) is the smallest and one of the handsomest 

 of the charr trouts. It never exceeds twelve 

 inches in length, and seldom grows beyond ten. 

 The coloration is dark blue, the red spots small 

 and round and usually confined to the sides of the 

 body. Its habitat is believed to be restricted to 

 the Rangeley Lake system in Maine, although 

 Professor Merriam has stated, some years ago, that 

 fish, anatomically identical, have been caught 

 in the lower St. Lawrence river, weighing six to 

 seven pounds. 



The blueback lies in deep water during the 

 greater part of the year, but about the tenth of 

 October comes near the shore and ascends in 

 great schools the Kennebago River for the purpose 

 of spawning. Half a mile above its mouth the 

 Kennebago receives the outlet of Lake Oquassa; 

 the trout leaves the Kennebago to the left and 



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