OBSEKVATIONS ON SOME NEW BRUNSWICK FISHES. 33 



ARTICLE II. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND 

 HABITS OF SOMK NEW BRUNSWICK FISHES. 



BY PHILIP COX, A. B., B. SC. 



The sources of the Restigouche and many tributaries of the 

 upper St. John, rise in a comparatively level area in the north- 

 western part of New Brunswick. Thence the two waters 

 diverge; those of the Restigouche north-easterly about one 

 hundred and forty miles into the Bay des Chaleurs ; those of 

 the St. John, south south-easterly three hundred miles into 

 the Bay of Fundy. Their mouths are on the same meridian, 

 and two hundred miles apart, with an intervening coast Hue 

 of about four hundred miles, two hundred and fifty of which 

 border on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Emptying into the 

 latter between these rivers are several others, such as the 

 Nepisiguit and north-west and south-west branches of the 

 Miramichi, which have their rise in a low water-shed a little 

 eastward of the sources referred to above. 



Between these two river-systems a marked ichthyological 

 contrast exists. In the three latter streams there is an 

 abundance of salt water or semi-marine fish, but a dearth of 

 the larger fluviatile and lacustrine species. Even many 

 purely fresh water forms, frequentiag small streams, and, 

 under favourable conditions, such as the interlacing of 

 tributaries and high freshets, spreading in time over large 

 areas, are here limited both in numbers and species, notably 

 the Cyprinidae, including the carps, chubs, minnows, etc. 



Though fished for years by Indians and settlers, and care- 

 fully examined of late by the writer for scientific purposes, 

 these rivers with their numerous forest lakes have never been 

 known to yield a single specimen of the togue or tuladi. 



