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lary reaching beyond eye; eye large; C. lunate, forked in young. 

 Dusky greenish, sides witli red spots mostly smaller than puj)il ; 

 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. ISea- 

 run individuals (var. immaculatus H. K. Storer) are silver-gray, 

 nearly plain, and they reach a large size. Specimens from Dublin 

 Pond, N. H. (var. agassizii Garman) are likewise pale, looking like 

 Lake Trout. Head 4^ ; depth 4i D. 10. A. 9. Scales 37-230-30. 

 Gill rakers 6 -f 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 ; S. 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 maxillarj' 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, 2| in head ; eye a little longer than snout, 

 4| in head ; P. largest in ^. Brownish, sides silver gray, with small 

 orange spots above and below lateral hne; C. grayish ; belly orange; 

 A. orange, edged before with white ; V. orange, with white band 

 on outer rays ; no mottlings anywhere. Head 4^ ; depth 4^. D. 9. 

 A. 8. Scales 35-210-40. L. 12, or more. Sunapee Lake, N. H., 

 very close to S. oquassa, but reaching a larger size. (Lat., gilded.) 



cc. Gill rakers straight. 



194. S. oquassa (Girard). Blue-back Trout. Rangeley 

 Lake Trout. Body elongate, compressed; head small, flattish 

 above; eye 3^ in head; P. and V. not elongate; C. deeply lunate; 

 opercles without striae. 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. 

 1. 230. Gill rakers 6 -|- 11. L. 12. Smallest and prettiest of our 

 SahnonidcB, and most like the European Salvelinus alpinus, found 

 only in the Rangeley Lakes in S. VV. Maine, and (S. naresi Gun- 

 ther), in some lakes in Arctic America. Perhaps a variety of S. 

 ftnfjnalis 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 th.at trout will cease to be. Tliey will he hatolied by machinerj' and raised in 

 ponds and fattened on I'bojiped 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 son'jless reed-bird is like the bobolink. Gross feedinf? 

 and easy pond life enervates and depraves him. The trout that the childi-en 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.) 



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