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of lalie-trout, difteiiug' from this species, which he calls the '■'■ hear-trout.^'' 

 He says that the distiactness of the species is recognized by the Indians, 

 and that they spawn at a different season. He mentions having sent a 

 specimen. After carefnl examination I can detect no differences of value 

 between the different individuals sent by him. 



Herbert, in his "Sui)plement," aflirms that, as a sporting fish, the "s/s- 

 Tcaivitz^^ is of no value ; bnt, in the following quotation which I have 

 made, acknowledges its high gastronomic excellence: 



" This tish, like the former species, came frequently under my eye dur- 

 ing my late northern tour ; and I rejoice in the possession of a barrel of 

 him in his pickled state, which I procured at the Sault Ste. Marie, on the 

 strength of which I can recommend him to all lovers of good eating as 

 the very best salt-fish that exists in the world. He is so fat and rich 

 that when eaten fresh he is insufferably rank and oily ; but when salted 

 and brriled, after being steeped for forty-eight liours in cold water, he is 

 Lot suri)assed or equaled by any fish with which I am ac(piainted. 

 Since my return he has been tasted by very many gentleman of my ac- 

 quaintance, and by no one of them has he been pronounced anything less 

 than superlative. His habits ch>sely resemble those of the namayetisJt., 

 and, like him, I cannot learn that he ever takes the fly or is ever taken 

 by trolling. I do not, however, believe that either of these methods are 

 often resorted to for his capture, although there are many scientific fly- 

 lishers about the Sau and the brook-trout of those waters are princi- 

 pally taken with large and gaudy lake-flies. The average weight of the 

 siskawitz does not exceed four or five i)ounds, though he is taken up to 

 seventeen. His excellence is so perfectly understood and acknowledged 

 in the lake-country that he fetches double the price per barrel of his 

 coarser big brother, the namaycush ; and he is so greedily sought for 

 there that it is difficult to procure him, even at Detroit, and ahuost im- 

 possible at Buffalo." 



41. SALMO SYMMETRICA, Prescott. 



WINNIPISEOGEE TROUT. 



Syx. — Salmo symmcirica, Pkescott, Sillimaii's Jour., 2d series, xi, p. 340, May 

 1851. Read befure Asso. of Am. Geologists and Naturalists, Boston, Sept, 

 1847. 



Sp. Ch. — (Condensed from Dr. Prescott's description and from the 

 examination of specimens.) Form, slender, symmetrical; a single row of 

 teeth on the vomer and palatines. Head. contained about four and a half 

 times in the total length ; position of dorsal fin considerably anterior 

 to the middle point of total length ; tip of anal fin extends some dis- 

 tance behind tip of adipose dorsal. Scales small. Lateral line waving 

 for the first inch or inch and a half, commencing a little below^ the su- 

 perior posterior angle of the operculum and gentl^' descending for a 

 short distance, and then ascending as mucb, when it proceeds in a 

 straiglit line to the middle of the tail. Head slightly flattened between 



