REPORT ON THE FISHES COLLECTED BY MR. OWEN 

 BRYANT ON A TRIP TO LABRADOR IX THE SUMMER OF 

 1908. 



By William Converse Kendall, 

 Assistant, U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, Washington. 



During the summer of 1908 Mr. Owen Bryant made very extensive 

 collections of marine animals along the coasts of Labrador and New- 

 foundland. Most of the specimens brought back were of invertebrate 

 types, but included among them were a few fishes. These were 

 turned over to Mr. Austin IT. Clark for study and report; he was 

 unable, however, in connection with his other work, to devote the 

 necessary time to them, and he therefore requested me to examine 

 them and to draw up an annotated list of the species represented. 



The collection consists of only fourteen species, of which seven are 

 young and larval forms taken in a tow net and dredge. Satisfactory 

 identification of some of these young individuals is difficult, but, 

 although the identifications of these are not absolutely positive, it is 

 hoped that they are correct. 



Of the fourteen species taken on the trip twelve are from Labrador, 

 one from Newfoundland, and one from St. Pierre. Two of the species 

 collected have not previously been definitely recorded from Labrador, 

 which shows the desirability of collections, however small, from that 

 region. 



1. (?) SALVELINUS STAGNALIS (Fabricius). 



Through the kindness of Mr. J. T. Nichols the writer was privileged 

 to examine six "sea trout " sent to him by Mr. Bryant. The fish had 

 been split and salted, hut were otherwise in fairly good condition and 

 showed the colors very well. Regarding these (ish Mr. Bryant wrote 

 in a letter dated December 26, 1908: 



Trout caughl at Komaktorvik Bay, Labrador, in sail wafer. September, L 908, called 

 "sea trout." There were just a few in places; you could almost walk across the rivers 

 mi i lie in withoul wetting your feet, or, to be more exact, they wore only a Ik mi one or 

 l wo feel apart all over the shoal places, ford used Id lake a nel and get enough out 

 of a river to last him through the winter for dog food. 



These specimens made it very evident t hat t here exists, in Labrador 

 at least, a "sea trout" very different from the sea-run form of the 

 brook trout (Salrclirmsjontind/is). 



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