THE TROUrS 



In Canada, many local names are applied to 

 them, to wit : Tyrant-of-the-lake, forked-tail 

 trout, black lunge, silver lunge, racer lunge, black 

 salmon, lake salmon, and tuladi. 



The distribution of this fish is widely extended, 

 covering the Great Lake region and lakes of 

 northern New York, New Hampshire, and Maine, 

 also those of Canada, and westward and northward 

 to the head-waters of the Columbia and Frazer 

 rivers, the streams of Vancouver Island and north 

 to the Arctic circle. 



The trouts previously described are all charrs, 

 and the only true salmon trouts in the waters of 

 New England have been transplanted from other 

 sections. 



In this connection the angler will be apt to 

 exclaim : How can we tell which is a charr and 

 which is a salmon trout, with so many confusing 

 variant forms of our favorite fish ? The difficulty 

 is easily solved. Put your finger in the mouth of 

 your fish, and if you find the vomer — a bone situ- 

 ated on the front part of the roof of the mouth 

 — flat, with teeth on its body, and behind these an 

 irregular single or double series of teeth, you hold 

 in your hand a salmon trout. If you find the 

 vomer much depressed, convex, shaped like a boat, 

 with teeth on the head of the bone and none on 



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