64 FISHES OF THE CONNECTICUT LAKES. 
pounds, but in other places it is known to reach 8 or 10 pounds. In 
Alaska some are said to have been caught weighing 60 pounds. 
The burbot affects rather deep water, approaching the shore at 
night to feed. It subsists to a great extent upon other fishes, their 
eggs and young. Very little is known of its breeding habits and life 
history. It probably spawns about February or March on the gravel 
bottoms of lakes and streams. Young from 1.9 to 2.45 inches long 
were taken in pools in a field on Indian Stream. We are unable to 
ascertain that young so small as these have been observed before. 
They were very delicate, died quickly, and became distorted about 
the head, although the water in the minnow bucket, in which minnows 
lived very well, was changed frequently. Their appearance was much 
like the adult, and easily recognized. The color was somewhat mot- 
tled olive, tip of first dorsal reddish. 
Young from 2.75 to 6 inches in length were taken in East Inlet of 
Second Lake. The stomachs and intestines of these young fish con- 
tained a variety of things, consisting partly of fragments of insects, 
shells of entomostraca, mites, and larval insects, principally the 
black fly. 
