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of lake trout, differing from this species, which he calls the " hear-trout.^'' 

 He says that the distiiictuess of the species is recognized by the Indians, 

 and that they spawn at a different season. He mentions having sent a 

 specimen. After careful examination I can detect no differences of value 

 between the different individuals sent by him. 



Herbert, in his ^'Sui)plemeut," aiiirms that, as a sporting fish, the "«is- 

 hawitz" is of no value ; but, in the following quotation which I have 

 made, acknowledges its high gastronomic excellence: 



" This fish, like the former species, came frequently under my eye dur- 

 ing my late uortherii tour 5 and I rejoice in the possession of a barrel of 

 him in his pickled state, which I procured at the Sault Ste. Marie, on the 

 strength of which I can recommend him to all lovers of good eating as 

 the very best salt-fish that exists in the world. He is so fat and rich 

 that when eaten fresh he is insufferably rank and oily ; but when salted 

 and bra)iled, after being steeped for forty-eight hours in cold water, he is 

 not surpassed or equaled by any fish with which I am acquainted. 

 Since my return he has been tasted by very many gentleman of my ac- 

 quaintance, and by no one of them has he been pronounced anything less 

 than superlative. His habits closely resemble those of the namai/ciish, 

 and, like him, I cannot learn that he ever takes the fly or is ever taken 

 by trolling. I do not, however, believe that either of these methods are 

 often resorted to for his capture, although there are many scientific fly- 

 fishers about the Sau and the brook-trout of those waters are i^rinci- 

 pally taken with large and gaudy lake-flies. The average weight of the 

 siskawitz does not exceed four or five i^ounds, though he is taken up to 

 seventeen. His excellence is so perfectly understood and acknowledged 

 in the lake-country that he fetches double the price per barrel of his 

 coarser big brother, the namaycush ; and he is so greedily sought for 

 th^re that it is difticult to procure him, even at Detroit, and almost im- 

 possible at Buffalo." 



41. SALMO SYMMETRICA, Prescott. 



WINNIPISEOGEE TROUT. 



Syn. — Sahno symmeMca, Prescott, Silliman's Jour., 2d series, xi, p, 340, May 

 1851. Read before Asso. of Am. Geologists and Naturalists, Boston, Sept. 

 1847, 



Sp. Ch. — (Condensed from Dr. Prescott's description and from the 

 examination of specimens.) Form, slender, vsymmetricalj a single row of 

 teeth on the vomer and palatines. Head contained about four and a half 

 times in the total length ; position of dorsal fin considerably anterior 

 to the middle point of total length 5 tip of anal fin extends some dis- 

 tance behind tip of adipose dorsal. Scales small. Lateral line waving 

 for the first inch or inch and a half, commencing a little below the su- 

 perior posterior angle of the operculum and gently descending for a 

 short distance, and then ascending as much, when it proceeds in a 

 straight line to the middle of the tail. Head slightly flattened between 



