100 FISH HARVE STING. 
otters, and the various enemies that it meets with 
in ascending the rivers, succeeded in depositing 
its ova, where or how they find room to spawn, 
or what becomes of the offspring, is more than I 
know. 
Round-fish are cured by splitting and sun- 
drying, precisely in the same manner as salmon. 
I have had very good sport angling for round- 
fish, by using a rough gaudy fly. They rise 
readily, and struggle obstinately, when hooked, 
but soon give up; turning on their side, they 
permit themselves to be dragged upon the bank 
without attempting a flap of resistance. 
Some of these fish remain permanently, or at 
any rate for some time, in fresh-water. I have 
often taken them in the Na-hoil-a-pit-ka river, to 
get into which they must have leaped the 
Kettle Falls during a high flood, being quite 
800 miles from the sea; and as they are caught 
in the spring, I think it fair to conclude they do 
not invariably return to the sea after spawning. 
Herrincs.—The Vancouver Island Herring 
(Malletta cerulia, Grd.).—Sp. Ch. Head, about 
one-fifth of the total length of the body, slender, 
its shape in profile somewhat fusiform; back, 
bright steel-blue colour, shading away on the 
sides to brilliant silvery-white; fins, yellow-white, 
