f SALMONID/A, — XXXIV. 81 
lary reaching beyond eye; eye large; C. lunate, forked in young. 
Dusky greenish, sides with red spots mostly smaller than pupil; 
back mostly unspotted, barred or mottled with dark; D. and C. 
mottled or barred; lower fins dusky, with an orange band followed 
by a darker one; belly mostly red in males. Very variable. Sea- 
run individuals (var. immaculatus H. Rh. Storer) are silver-cray, 
nearly plain, and they reach a large size. Specimens from Dublin 
Pond, N. H. (var. agassizii Garman) are likewise pate, looking like 
Lake Trout. Head 4}; depth 4}. D.10. A.9. Scales 37-230-30, 
Gill rakers 6+ 11. L. 5 to 20. Greatest weight about 11 pounds. 
Our finest game fish, abounding in clear cold streams from Maine 
to Dakota and N. to Arctic Circle; 8. in Mts. to Chattahoochee R. 
(Lat., living in fountains. ) 
bb. Hyoid teeth present, feeble, often lost; head smaller (about 5 in length); 
mouth small, the maxillary scarcely reaching past middle of eye. 
c. Gill rakers curled at the ends. 
193. S. aureolus Bean. SuNAPEE Lake Trout. Maxillary 
reaching middle of eye, 22 in head; eye a little longer than snout, 
42 in head; P. largest in ¢. Brownish, sides silver gray, with small 
orange spots above and below lateral line; C. grayish; belly orange; 
A. orange, edged before with white; V. orange, with white band 
on outer rays; no mottlings anywhere. Head 44; depth 44. D.9. 
A. 8. Scales 35-210-40. L. 12, or more. Sunapee Lake, N. H., 
very close to S. oquussa, but reaching a larger size. (Lat., gilded.) 
ec. Gill rakers straight. 
194. S. oquassa (Girard). Biur-pack Trout. RANGELEY 
Lake Trout. Body elongate, compressed; head small, flattish 
above; eye 34 in head; P. and V. not elongate; C. deeply lunate; 
opercles without strie. Dark blue, the red spots smaller than 
pupil, on sides only; traces of dark bars on sides ; lower fins varie- 
gated as in other charrs. Head 5; depth 5. D.10. A. 9. Lat. 
]. 230. Gillrakers6 4-11. L.12. Smallest and prettiest of our 
Salmonide, and most like the European Salvelinus alpinus, found 
only in the Rangeley Lakes in S. W. Maine, and (S. narest Gun- 
ther), in some lakes in Arctic America. Perhaps a variety of S. 
stagnalis Fabricius, of Greenland. (From Oquassoc, one of the 
Rangeley Lakes.) 
will find no paper collar or other evidence of civilization. It is the Nameless River. 
Not that trout will cease to be. They will be hatched by machinery and raised in 
ponds and fattened on chopped liver, and grow flabby and lose their spots. The 
trout of the restaurant will not cease to be. He is no more like the trout of the 
wild river than the fat and songless reed-bird is like the bobolink. Gross feeding 
and easy pond life enervates and depraves him. The trout that the children will 
know only by legend is the gold-sprinkled living arrow of the White-water, able to 
zigzag up the cataract, able to loiter in the rapids, whose dainty meat is the glancing 
butterfly.”’ (Myron W. Reed.) P 
