316 Salmonide 
adaptation of the salmon to lake life. We have therefore on 
our Atlantic coast but one species of salmon, Salmo salar. The 
landlocked form of the lakes of Maine is Salmo salar sebago, 
The Ouananiche of Lake St. John and the Saguenay, beloved of 
anglers, is Salmo salar ouananiche. 
The Ouananiche.—Dr. Henry Van Dyke writes thus of the 
Ouananiche: ‘But the prince of the pool was the fighting 
Ouananiche, the little salmon of St. John. Here let me chant 
thy praise, thou noblest and most high-minded fish, the cleanest 
feeder, the merriest liver, the loftiest leaper, and the bravest 
warrior of all creatures that swim! Thy cousin, the trout, in 
his purple and gold with crimson spots, wears a more splendid 
armor than thy russet and silver mottled with black, but thine 
is the kinglier nature. 
“The old salmon of the sea who begat thee long ago in these 
inland waters became a backslider, descending again to the 
ocean, and grew gross and heavy with coarse feeding. But thou, 
unsalted salmon of the foaming floods, not landlocked as men call 
thee, but choosing of thine own free will to dwell on a loftier 
level in the pure, swift current of a living stream, hath grown 
in grace and risen to a better life. 
“Thou art not to be measured by quantity but by quality, 
and thy five pounds of pure vigor will outweigh a score of 
pounds of flesh less vitalized by spirit. Thou feedest on the 
flies of the air, and thy food is transformed into an aerial passion 
for flight, as thou springest across the pool, vaulting toward the 
sky. Thine eyes have grown large and keen by piercing through 
the foam, and the feathered hook that can deceive thee must 
be deftly tied and delicately cast. Thy tail and fins, by cease- 
less conflict with the rapids, have broadened and strengthened, 
so that they can flash thy slender body like a living arrow up 
the fall. As Launcelot among the knights, so art thou among 
the fish, the plain-armored hero, the sunburnt champion of all 
the water-folk.” 
Dr. Francis Day, who has very thoroughly studied these 
fishes, takes, in his memoir on ‘“‘The Fishes of Great Britain 
and Ireland,” and in other papers, a similar view in regard 
to the European species. Omitting the species with permanent 
teeth on the shaft of the vomer (subgenus Salar), he finds 
