14:4 HISTORY OF THE FISHES OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



price was eight cents per pound. Between twenty and thirty years ago, two wagons, 

 each bringing from thirty to forty salmon from the Merrimack River, supplied the 

 Boston market every week during the season of the fish. The few individuals now 

 taken in our rivers are looked upon as rarities, and our market is supplied by the fish- 

 eries of the Kennebec River and Nova Scotia. The average weight of the Merrimack 

 salmon was from nine to twelve pounds, and from sixteen to twenty-two pounds. The 

 largest weigh from thirty to forty pounds. They have been caught during every month 

 of the year. The greatest run of salmon up the rivers is about the first of June. The 

 fishermen say the young salmon are never seen on their return. 



The price of salmon has varied in Boston market of late years from two dollars to 

 twenty cents per pound. The largest specimen I have heard of being sold in the 

 market here weighed thirty-five pounds ; and the greatest price ever received for one 

 individual in the same market was fifty dollars. 



Labrador, Canada, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia, Richardson, Dekay. Maine, 

 New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, Storer. Connecticut, Linsley. New York, 

 Mitchill, Dekay. 



Salmo fontinalis, Mitchill. 



The Common Brook-Trout. 



(Plate XXV. Fig. 3.) 



Salmo fontinalis, Common Trout, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. p. 435. 



Salmo nigrescens, Black Trout, Raf., Ichth. Ohien., p. 45. 



Pud-spotted Trout, Doughty, Cabinet of Nat. Hist., i. p. 145, pi. 13. 



Salmo fontinalis, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ., in. p. 176, pi. 83, fig. 1 ; pi. 87, fig. 2 (head). 



" " Common Broolc-Trout, Stobeb, Report, p. 106. 



« " Speckled Trout, Kiktlaxd, Report, pp. 169, 194. 



" " Brook-Trout, Thompson, Hist, of Vermont, p. 141. 



" " " Dekat, Report, p. 235, pi. 37, fig. 120. 



Baione fontinalis, Spotted Troutlet, Dekat, Report, p. 244, pi. 20, fig. 58. 

 Salmo fontinalis, Brook-Trout, Atkes, Bost. Jonrn. Nat. Hist., it. 273. 



" " Common Brook-Trout, Eirtlaxd, Bost. Jonrn. Nat. Hist., it. p. 305. 



" " " " Stokeb, Mem. Amer. Acad., New Series, n. p. 444. 



" " " " *' Synopsis, p. 192. 



" " Cuv. et Val., Nat Hist, des Pois., xxi. p. 266. 



Color. The upper part of the body is of a pale-brown color, mottled with darker 

 undulating, reticulated markings ; the sides lighter, with a great number of circular yel- 

 low spots, varying in their size from a small point to a line or more in diameter, and 

 many of them having in the centre a bright-red spot ; sometimes, the yellow color sur- 



