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Salmo 7iamaycush, Walbaum) ; white-fish or gizzard-fish, 

 {Coregonus clupeiformis); or fresh-water cusk {Lota maculosa, 

 Le Sueur); all of which are found in large numbers in the 

 waters of the St. John and Kestigouche. In the latter rivers, 

 too, the writer has found Uranidea boleoides, Girard, a small 

 fresh-water sculpin, never before reported, as far as he knows, 

 from the Maritime Provinces. 



As a general rule, the first three are lacustrine species, 

 frequenting the largest and deepest lakes, though the white- 

 fish and fresh-water cusk are also fluviatile to a limited 

 extent; vet, under the latter conditions, their preference for 

 long, still, deep reaches, betravs their piimitive habits and 

 distribution. This is the ca,t>e on the lower St. John, where 

 their existence is probably due to a few having been originally 

 carried over the Grand Falls from the lake region above, 

 where they abound. Wnenever thus restricted to a river life 

 the white-fish will, on the appmach of winter, sometimes 

 descend to the sea. To a sligh. exrent this is the case on the 

 lower St. John, but mure characteristic of the fish in the 

 Arctic regions, where thi- inuer u mperature of such waters 

 must induce periodical niijji;iiioi s. 



The togue occurs in ii.io \ widely separated places in 

 New Brunswick, such ;> m.h Chamcook Lakes, near St. 

 Andrews; Long Lake ai i ■ iltad of the Lepreaux River, St. 

 John County, and in some diMiiied li\ he Tobique. It is 

 also found in Lake Meiap di ;, Qnehec. w: o.ve waters empty 

 into the Restigouche; m d 'h- ^ n er has verified its presence 

 in States Lake draining m " hi Kegewick, an affluent to the 

 same river. After a !■ i >.■ o careful examination of the 

 lacustrine waters oi the .M lainiciii, including the lake in 

 question, there seem- o ■< m :or doubt, but that M. H. 

 Perley was mistaken un.g this fish to the Miramichi 



Lake in his " R'(iom,- . . Sea and River Fisheries of New 



Brunswick, 185;iJ '' N > vv.hatever, nor other record of 



its occurrence iieie c i ■ iimi. 



Between heio.iir i>i-water cusk there is a singular 



association;— I lie lu. :i a n -si invariably found in the same 



