6o Fish Culturists' Association. 



Mr. Seth Green : Do you not find the same fish in fresh 

 water ? 



Mr. WlLMOT : We do. We find at the foot of some in- 

 surmountable falls, up in the stream above, this little fish, the 

 salmo fontinalis. 



Mr. Green : Is not that the fish you take when you take 

 the salmon on the fly? Do you not catch both in the same 

 pools ? 



Mr. Wilmot : Yes, sir ; you catch the salmon and the speckled- 

 trout in the same pools. In the little streams, above the large 

 falls, you will find large numbers of the speckled-trout, and also 

 larger ones called the sea-trout, because they have been down to 

 the sea ; but they are silvery in their appearance, while the little 

 ones are black-looking ; but those little ones will get plenty of 

 food and return to the same spot as sea-trout, because we catch 

 them all together. 



Dr. Milner : The question of these trout is one on which 

 there is a great confusion so far as the ideas of naturalists are 

 concerned. The salmo Canadensis is described as having red spots. 

 Another species was described without red spots. I know that 

 on the coast of Long Island the salmo fontinalis runs down into 

 the salt water, and is taken out of the salt water. Whether 

 the salmo Canadensis and the salmo fontinalis are to be con- 

 sidered as different species or not, I do not know, but there 

 is a sea-trout which is not a salmo fontinalis. Dr. Hudson 

 informs me that Mr. Bracket, the painter of salmon and 

 other fishes, in painting sea-trout from the waters of New 

 Brunswick, found they were without red spots, and two speci- 

 mens were sent to us to the Smithsonian Institute, from 

 Dartmouth River, which were without the red spots, and were 

 decidedlv the salmo fontinalis. Whether salmo Canadensis and the 

 salmo fontinalis may be proved to be identical or not, I am 



