TROUT. vis 
adventurous fish that runs the gauntlet of this 
perilous passage ! 
But the most curious contrivance I saw was 
at Johnson’s Narrows. I have said salmon readily 
take a bait when in saltwater. The Indians when 
fishing use two spears, one about seventy feet in 
length; the other shorter, having a barbed end, is 
about twenty feet long. In acanoe thus equipped, 
favourable fishing-grounds are sought, the In- 
dian having the long spear being also provided 
with a small hollow cone of wood, trimmed round 
its greater circumference with small feathers, 
much like a shuttlecock; this he places on the 
end of the longer spear, and presses it under 
water, until down the full length of the handle; 
a skilful jerk detaches this conelike affair from 
the spear-haft, when it wriggles up through the 
water like a struggling fish. The savage with 
the short spear intently watches this deceiver; a 
salmon runs at it, and it is speared like magic. 
Next in importance amongst the Salmonidz 
is the Oregon Brook Trout, Mario stellatus (Grd. 
Proc. Acad., Phil. Nat. Soc., viii. 219). 
Specific Characters.—Head rather large, con- 
tained four-and-a-half times in the total length ; 
maxillary reaching a vertical line drawn behind 
the orbit. Colour of the back bright olive- 
