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of Sixteen Island Lake, silvery lead-color with small red spots : , 

 others very light salmon-color, a little darker on the back, with 

 the scarlet spots very distinct, whilst others again were pale olive 

 brown with salmon-colored bellies. One beautiful specimen was 

 very deep salmon-color on the belly, pale silvery blue on the sides, 

 with large and brilliant scarlet spots, and the back almost black 

 spotted with yellow, the tail purplish with a submarginal band of 

 lake and margined with white. The ventral and pectoral fins of 

 all were salmon-colored with a broad streak of white on the outer 

 margin. The males were generally much brighter that the females, 

 and were of a brilliant orange color on the belly instead of pale 

 salmon-color; the cartilaginous projection on the lower jaw was 

 much grown over the mouth as is usual in the breeding season. 

 The females, which were at least two to one of the males, wer e 

 full of spawn. The average size of the trout in these lakes was 

 from twelve to twenty inches in length, and from six and a half to 

 nine and a half inches in girth, the heaviest weighing about four 

 pounds. 



5. Salmol ( Grey Lake Trout). — This species, which I have 

 been unable to determine, was first met with in May at Sixteen 

 Island Lake where we caught several fine specimens of four or five 

 pounds in weight, measuring twenty-three inches in length 

 and ten inches in girth behind the pectoral fins. At that time 

 they took our bait in a very sluggish manner and afforded no 

 sport whatever, giving merely a dead pull when hooked. The 

 flesh is pale huffish white and is not nearly so rich in flavor as 

 that of the last specie?, which is deep salmon-color. They begin 

 to bite much later in the autumn than the Spotted Trout or about 

 the middle of October, and were not so abundant as that species, 

 being found only in the larger Lakes, viz. Sixteen Island, Tremb- 

 ling and Three Mountain Lakes. 



6. Coregonusl (White-fish). — When at Bevin's Lake on 15th- 

 October I saw several specimens of a Coregonus which had been 

 just taken with a net in that Lake. As I was unable to preserve 

 specimens I cannot determine the species. There were none in 

 the Lake when we were camped there in June and July, at least 

 we took none in our net. 



7. Catastomus. Two species of " Sucker" were said to have been 

 taken in Sixteen Island Lake whilst I was absent, and were spoken* 

 of as the " Mullet' 7 and " Black Sucker." One was also caught 

 in Bevin's Lake in June, but unfortunately I did not see any speci- 

 mens myself. 



