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CHAPTER 7III. 
WHITE-FISH. 
Coregonus Alhus — Attihawmeg. — Although included 
in the salmon family by having the second dorsal adi- 
pose, and the fin-rays soft, this fish differs totally from 
either the trout or salmon. It has minute velvet-like 
teeth, scarcely perceptible to the touch, except on the 
gill-arches, where there is a row of long and slim ones, 
like bristles ; the scales are large and the body com- 
pressed like that of a shad, and it has been called the 
Fresh- water Shad. The mouth is very small, utterly un- 
suited for seizing the prey on which the trout and salmon 
feed; the color of the back is greyish blue, and the sides 
white. 
Fin-rays, D. 13.0 ; P. 17 ; Y. 12 ; A. 13 ; C. 19f, the 
second dorsal being adipose. 
The proper appellation for this fish is the Indian 
name, Attihawmeg, and if sportsmen would in all cases 
follow the names used by the aborigines they would 
show more sense than the common people of our coun- 
try, who think every fish with a spiny back fin must be 
a bass, and every other a trout. The Attihawmeg 
abounds in Lake Huron, where it attains a weight of 
twelve to fourteen pounds, and is tolerably abundant in 
Lakes Erie, Ontario and Michigan. It feeds on mussels 
