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Migratory salmon of large size were at that time speared on the same 

 grounds where the small salmon are now taken in great numbers, and 

 which are never over Hve pounds in weight. 



I have published but one other paper on the Salmonidce, that on the 

 togue, which is printed in the Maine Geological Reports of Hitchcock's 

 Survey, and I have no doubt but that the description is correct, and 

 the fish new to the scientific world. 



The Sahno Gloveri is nothing but a parr. I examined the fish several 

 years before Girard saw his specimen, and recognized it as the young of 

 the migratory salmon. 



They have disappeared from Union River since the extinction of the 

 salmon. 



Yours, truly, 



A. C. HAMLIN. 



2. — *THE TOGUE. 



Salmo toma, Hamlin. 



This trout, known among the aborigines as the toffiie, tuladij &c., has 

 been classed by some observers as identical with the ISalmo hucJio of 

 the Danube and of the lakes of Northern Europe ; but in these classifi- 

 cations peculiarities of anatomical structure have been overlooked, and 

 the habits of the two fishes have also been noted as similar, whereas in 

 reality they present great contrasts ; for the one, agile and alert, seeks 

 the swift and foaming currents of the clearest streams ; and the other, 

 sly and sluggish, haunts always the quiet waters of the deepest lakes. 

 It is mentioned by Mr. Gesner in his report upon New Brunswick, and 

 identified with the Salmo lacustris of Lake Geneva ; a i)roper exami- 

 nation of the two fishes, however, will satisfy the naturalists that few 

 positive analogies can be drawn ; and, again, it is identified with the 

 Salmo ferox of Loch Awe, in Scotland, in the descriptive catalogue of 

 fishes of New Brunswick, by Mr. Perley, who identifies from the charac- 

 ters drawn by Sir W. Jardine and Mr. Yarrell, some of which would cer- 

 tainly lead the observer, unless minute, into the same error ; for it can- 

 not be denied that great similarities are to be observed, but there are 

 also as many with the S. erytlirinus of Siberia. 



In shape it is not so elegant as that of some other species of the 

 Salmonidce, but its whole form indicates great strength and swiftness, 

 altliough it has the reputation of being slow and sluggish. The female is 

 more perfect in its proportions than tfie male, not having that gibbous 

 appearance at the nape, where the outlines of the head pass into those 

 of the back, and, besides, its general contour is more delicate. 



A rich, pearly luster covers the ventral regions, deepening into russet 



*Frora the Second Aunual Report of the Natural History and Geology of the State of 

 Maine, 1862, (pub. 1SG3. ) Article on the Togue, by A. C. Hamlin, M. D. 



