328 The Trout s of America 



Lake, where its bridal voyage comes to an end. 

 About the middle of November it goes into 

 Mooselookmaguntic Lake, and is seen no more 

 until October of next year. The oquassa trout 

 is not an angler's fish ; a few have been caught 

 in summer with the garden worm as bait, and 

 they have been taken with the same lure while 

 on their spawning ground, but they give the 

 angler the impression that the bait only annoys 

 them, and they attack it merely to drive it away 

 from their beds. 



There are two subspecific forms of the blue- 

 back trout : one the Naresi charr {Salvelinus 

 oquassa naresi) with an Arctic habitat ; the other 

 the Lac de Marbre trout {Salvelinus oquassa 

 marsoiii)^ the latest discovery in the line of 

 charrs, living in a lake of the same name as the 

 fish and doubtless numerous other Canadian 

 waters. The first {naresi) is distinguished by its 

 very small red spots, greenish back, deeply forked 

 tail, and deep red lower fins. It is found in Dis- 

 covery Bay and Chamberland Gulf of the Arctic 

 region. I have no record of it as an angling fish. 



The Lac de Marbre trout is somewhat closely 

 allied to the blueback trout, but grows to a 

 greater size ; it is readily distinguished from it by 



