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the merganser it appeared probable this bird was the 

 rightful owner of the premises. I once found a dusky 

 duck's nest in a cavity of a leaning birch tree about 

 thirty feet high. 



The Winninish of the Saguenay 



I have compared the winninish of the Saguenay with 

 the landlocked salmon of Maine (salmo gloveri) and think 

 them the same. Some years ago some of the Saguenay 

 fish were sent to Cambridge. Prof. Agassiz, Mr. Putman 

 and myself compared them and Agassiz thought them the 

 same. I have no doubt that the salmo gloveri is quite 

 common in most of the rivers about the Bay of Fundy, 

 as well as along the state of Maine, and when taken 

 have been called the young of the sea salmon. 



Unless you have both to compare, it is not easy to tell 

 the difference. They have been examined as to all their 

 measurements so scientifically, their markings, etc., 

 which I have no doubt you have seen, that it is not hard 

 to tell the S. gloveri from the true salmon. The number 

 of vertebrae differ — fifty-nine in the salmon to fifty-seven 

 in S. gloveri, a double row of small teeth in the vomer 

 of the young salmon, a single row in the smolt of the 

 gloveri. 



Some of our English fishermen thought our fish the 

 same as the European S. Trutta aS. cambricas. Some 

 specimens were sent to Dr. Gunther, F. R. S., of Eng- 

 land, who pronounced them different and nothing to do 

 with the sea salmon. I do not understand how they ever 

 got the name land-locked salmon, as they always had 

 access to the sea, and in my boy days S. gloveri was 



