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found, and not an importation from Europe.” ‘Should it 
appear,’ he continues, “that the saibling in that part of 
Germany from which specimens have been brought to America, 
have gill-rakers like those of the Sunapee trout, this opinion 
would be reconsidered.’’ Professor Garman has disposed of 
the gill-rake argument, but, as far as I know, Professor Jordan 
has not further expressed himself in regard to the Sunapee 
form ; although in a recent article on the salmon and trout of 
the Pacific coast he states, that in the lakes of Greenland and 
the Eastern part of British America the European charr is as 
abundant as it is in Europe—a fact which has only lately been 
made manifest.” Mr. J. G. A. Creighton, of Ottawa, Canada, 
writes under date of Feb 16, 1893: “From the height and 
character of Sunapee Lake, it is not at all improbable that an 
Arctic variety may have survived there, which has perished, or 
been transformed, elsewhere south of 55° or 60° N. Lat. Arctic 
species must have been common to all our waters in the Glacial 
Period.” Professor Garman writes me, of November 17, 1892, 
that ‘‘ no good evidence has been advanced of the existence of 
this species on this continent, previous to 1884.’’ It isa matter 
of record, however, that 60,000 German saibling eggs, the gift 
of the Deutsche Fischerei-Verein, were sent to New Hampshire 
in January, 1881. Itis further to be taken into consideration that 
the writer of this paper had in his possession, at Sunapee Lake, 
in the summer of 1882, a four-pound specimen of the saibling 
in question—which could not have developed from fry hatched 
the preceding year! No saibling have ever been sent to Maine 
by the United States Fish Commission ; and, as has been shown, 
it is impossible that the fish in Flood’s Pond can be descendants 
of the New Hampshire charr. The theory that there was nothing 
in recent years to prevent the Salvelinus alpinus of Sunapee Lake 
from descending the Connecticut River to Long Island Sound, 
and thence making its way into streams and connecting lakes 
from the shores of Connecticut to those of Greenland, may be 
disposed of in a single word—Dans. 
The Sunapee charr is undoubtedly a representative of the 
European form ; but reasons have been given why it is believed 
to be a native of this continent. It differs no more extensively 
from the several European varieties than they do among them- 
selves. Von dem Borne, Professors Benecke and Dalmer, 
Wittmack, of Berlin, all speak of important differences in form, 
size and color, according to age, sex, season and habitat. All 
authorities allude to the solid sea-green or dark-blue of the 
back, the yellowish sides, and the red or orange belly. Benecke 
and Dalmar refer picturesquely to the half-moon tail. As to 
