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and jaws proportionately lengthened and pointed. Maxillary nearly half 

 the leugtli of the head; interorhital space nearly one-fourth; teeth very 

 strong. Caudal fin well forked ; adipose fin small. General coloration 

 dark gray, sometimes pale, sometimes almost black; everywhere with 

 rounded paler spots, which are often reddish tinged ; head usually vermic- 

 ulate above ; dorsal and caudal reticulate with darker. Length 36 inches. 

 Reaches weight of 60 to 100 pounds, averaging about 17. Great Lake 

 region and lakes of uorthern New York, New Hampshire, and Maine, the 

 headwatersof the Columbia and Fraser rivers, streams of Vancouver Island, 

 and north to the Arctic Circle, said not to enter tidal waters ; very abund- 

 ant in the larger bodies of water ; varying in form and color in the different 

 lakes ; specimens from Lac des Neiges, Canada, said to be almost black 

 (Garman), others variously paler and gray. Some in smaller lakes short 

 and deep in body. (An Lidian name.) 



Namai/cush Sahiioii, PENNANT, Arctic Zoiilogy, Introtl., 191, 1792, Hudson Bay. 

 Balmo nnmayciish, Walbaum, Artedi Pisciuin, G8, 1792, Hudson Bay; based on the Xamaycush 



Salmon of Pennant; Gunther, Cat., vi, 123, 1866, and of authors generally. 

 Sahnn palllihui, Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Mag., December, 1817, 120, Lake Champlain 

 Salmo nnu'thysliniif, MiTCHiLL, Jourti. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1818, 410, Sault Ste. Marie. 

 Salmo lioodii, Richardson, App. Ross's Voyage, lviii, 1835, in part ; specimen from Boothia 



Felix; Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., iii, 174, 1836, Mingan River. 

 Balmo confirm, De Kav, N. Y. Fauna; Fishes, 238, 1842, Louis Lake, Hamilton County, New 



York; Silver Lake, Pennsylvania. 

 Salmo Ki/mmelrims, Pkescott, Am. Jouru. Sci. Arts, 1851, Vol. xi, 340, Lake Winnipiseogee, 



New Hampshire. 

 Salmo toiiKi, Hamlin, The Togue, in Holmes, 2d Annual Report Maine Fish Comm., 1862, 109, 



Lakes of Maine. 

 Salmo adiroiulaats, NoRRis, American Angler's Book, 255, 1865, Adirondack Lakes. 

 Salmo siscoicel, GiJNTHER, Cat., vi, 123, 1866; not of AOASSIZ. 

 Salvelinus iinmaycitsh, .Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 317, 1883. 



Represented in Lake Superior by 



782a. CRISTIVOMER NAMATCUSH SISCOWET (Agassiz). 



(SiSCOWET.) 



Scales rather small, about 175 in the lateral line. Body short and deep, 

 covered with thick skin, there being an excessive tendency to the devel- 

 opment of fatty tissue. Head very short and deep, its upper surface 

 broad and short, covered by a skin so thick as to completely hide the 

 bones; no distinct median carina. Mouth very large, its gape narrower 

 than in C. namaycutih. Teeth weaker than in C. namaycush ; supplemental 

 bone also shorter and broader. Maxillary a little more than half the 

 length of the head. Caudal fin well forked. Coloration as in C. namay- 

 cush, but usually paler ; fin rays the same. Lake Superior ; abundant, 

 but not yet found elsewhere. Very close to the preceding, but difi'ering 

 in the shortness and breadth of the bones of the head and in the extreme 

 fatness of the flesh. It is probably a local variety rather than a distinct 

 species. (An Indian name, probably from the same root as Cisco.) 

 Salmo siscovtet, Agassiz, Lake Superior, 333, 1850, Lake Superior. 

 Salmo siskawit;, Agassiz, in Herbert, Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing, 112, with plate, 1850, 



Lake Superior 

 Salmo ursiuHs, Barnston, Kept. Fisheries Canada, Irake Superior; reference uncertain. 

 Salvelinus itamaycuuli sistoivet, JuuuAV & Gilbert, Synopsis, 318, 1883. 



