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during the preceding year. It was the same with the salmon and the 

 capelin. 



The "roek cod," or duffij^ as it is termed by the fishermen, which 

 they consider less valuable than the deep water cod, swarms about the 

 boats when the fishermen are seining the capelin, and are seen snap- 

 ping them up. 



Merlucius vulgaris Fleming ? "Hake." I was told by a fisherman 

 that he had taken but one hake during a period of forty summers 

 spent on this coast. He had never seen a Haddock on this coast. 

 Both of these species are abundant at the mouth of the St. Law- 

 rence in Bay Chaleur. 



Brosmim Jiavescens Lesueur ? A " Cusk " was caught in eighty 

 fathoms in the Straits of Belle Isle. The specimen is in the Collec- 

 tion of the Lyceum of Natural History, Williams College. 



Salmo saLar Linn. Owing to the great lowering of the climate by 

 the drift ice, the salmon fishery was almost a failure this season. The 

 fishery had just begun at Henley Plarbor, opposite Belle Isle, on the 

 28th of June, 1864. At Square Island they were not netted before the 

 12th of July ; here they disappear usually about the 15th of August. 

 July 23d they had not appeared at this point. At Thomas Bay, near 

 Cape Harrison, they appeared on the 2 2d of July. At this place the 

 salmon was said to disappear about the 20th of August. At Groswa- 

 ter Bay, (Hamilton Inlet), only two hundred tierces were taken dur- 

 ing the whole season, when usually five times that number are caught. 



The salmon remains upon the coast at the mouth of streams about 

 a month, during the Labrador mid-summer, which corresponds in tem. 

 perature to that of the middle of May in New England. 



At Hopedale the salmon is quite rare, and I was informed that it 

 was not common north of this point. It seems to be a rare species in 

 Greenland, thus showing the close correspondence of the climate of 

 the Labrador coast in latitude 57° to that of the southern coast of 

 Greenland. One young specimen from a tidal stream at Belles 

 Amours, Straits of Belle Isle, Avas collected June 28th. 



Salmo immaculatus H. R. Storer. Three specimens from near 

 Hopedale were collected July 29th. These specimens are unquestiona- 

 bly referable to the S. immaculatus of Storer, and are distinct from the 

 S. trutta of Europe, with which species Perley and others have con- 

 founded them. They diSer from S. trutta by having larger scales, 

 and being without spots, as their name indicates. 



Salmo sp "? Two specimens from the Island of Ponds, near Domino 

 Harbor, collected in July. This species, which, from its rather im- 

 perfect condition, I have not been able to recognize, appears to be 

 closely allied to the S. trutta of Europe, being spotted as in that 

 species, but of somewhat different shape, especially of the head. There 



