so.1763. SOME FISHES FROM LABRADOR KENDALL. 50' 



of our country. Ii may uol be amiss to remark, in addition, thai several species of 

 Salmo, or large river trout, also have the sea-going habii well developed. These 

 include the brown trout, the rainbow, steelhead, and redthroat. 



Subsequent disputants, however, ignored or were ignorant of this 

 plausible suggestion and continued to enunciate their views and 

 denounce their opponents in the arguments. But that two differenl 

 fish were under discussion can not be doubted. 



To the present writer it seems doubtful whether the name Salvelinus 

 stagnalis can properly be given to this species. It is a name bestowed 

 by Fabricius upon a small trout which inhabited the remoter moun- 

 tain waters of Greenland from which, it was said, it never descended 

 to the sea ("Habitat in aquis montanis remotioribus, hide numquam 

 descendens."). 



If other small salmonids of the fresh waters of Greenland can be 

 regarded as distinct species or subspecies (S. arcturus and S. naresi) 

 there is nothing to indicate that S. stagnalis is not one of these. 



Our fish is undoubtedly the same form that was described by 

 Fabricius 6 under the name of Salmo carpio, by mistake. 



Dressel,' regarding a fish which he identified as Salvelinus stagnalis, 

 says: 



Although it is doubtful whether the species is the Salmo stagnalis of Fabricius, yet 

 it agrees partly with the description and very closely with Doctor Richardson's 

 description of Salmo alipes, which is probably identical with S. stagnalis. It differs 

 from S. carpio Fabricius in being more elongate and in the absence of the black quad- 

 rate spots mentioned in his description. 



The "more elongate form" counts for nothing, since individuals 

 vary in this respect, and Dressel attaches too much importance to 

 the absence of ''black quadrate spots" mentioned by Fabricius. 

 Regarding this character, Fabricius says: ''Scales with dusky mar- 

 gins, and causing as it were quadrate spots, which, however, are not 

 easily perceived." (Color dorsi obscure ccerulescit, tinctura subviridi, 

 squamarum marginibus tamen nigrantibus, et quasi maculas </n<i<//-al<is 

 causantibus, quse tamen nonfacile observantur) . 



It is very likely a sea-run form of the lish that Fabricius designated 

 as Salmo alpinus, which may be identical with one or more of Rich- 

 ardson's species, perhaps Salmo alipes, as suggested by Dressel and 

 others. 



Storer's name Salmo immaculatus is preoccupied and could not be 

 used for it if it should, by chance, prove to be without a name. Hut 

 this contingency is doubtful. 



" Fauna ijm nlaiulicus, 1780, p. I7." ( . 

 6 Idem, p. 170. 



c Notes on some Greenland Fishes, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, L884, |> 255 



