NATURAL HISTORY. Ivii 



(lusky-orangc. The flesh is reddish, of different tints in different individuals, being 

 best flavoured when the colour is most intense. 



The length of the specimen which was brought home is thirty-four inches, of which 

 the head forms one-fifth. 



The following are the numbers of the rays of the fins : 



Br. 12, 13. D 1.3— 0. P 14. V 10. All. C21|. 



SALMO ALIPES {Long-Jimicd Char) 



ICON.— Fflj/n. Bor. Jmcr.— pi. 8!, and llie liead pi. 86, fig. 1. 



This species, which with several other kinds, is included by the Esquimaux under the 

 general appellation of Eekalook-peedeook, was found in a small lake, whose waters 

 were discharged into the sea by a rivulet about half a mile long. The smallness of its 

 scales, and the vomerine teeth being confined to the anterior knob, characterize it as 

 belonging to the subdivision Salvelini or Chars of rv'ilsson. Its form is slender, its 

 jaws are of nearly equal lengtli, and it differs from all its congeners, that we have seen, 

 in the great comparative length of its fins. The scales are small and crowded, but 

 not tiled ; they are covered with a thin epidermis, and do not exhibit the projecting 

 naked tips, which give so ])cculiar a character to the skin of Sahno Rossii, Even in 

 the dried specimen they are perfectly smooth to the touch. No description of the 

 colours of this species was furnished to us, but as far as can be judged from the tints 

 remaining in the prepared skin, the upper parts were hair-brown, the sides paler, with 

 yellowish spots, and the belly white or yellow ; the under fins more or less deeply 

 orange. 



The length of the specimen is twenty-four inches, of which the head measures one- 



fiflh. 



Fins: Br. 11, 12. P 15. D 13— 0. V 9. AlOorll. C 19f 



SALMO NITIDUS {T/w Angmalook). 



ICON.— Fuim. Bor. ylwc;-.— pi. 82, fig. 1, and head pi. 86, fig. 2. 



This fish, which is also to be r.inked among the Ciiars, was fiiund in tlie same lake 

 with the preceding one, to which it bears much resemblance in the form of the parts of 



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