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outlet so far as we know. No brown trout have ever been put 

 in it, and we take it for granted that the specimen I send is 



one of the ' Swiss trout.' ' ; 



Genus CRISTIVOMER Gill & Jordan 



This genus contains one or two species, large, coarse chars, 

 distinguished from S a 1 v e 1 i n u s by the presence of a raised 

 crest behind the head of the vomer and free from the shaft; this 

 crest is armed with teeth. The hyoid teeth constitute a strong, 

 cardiform band. The typical species is a large char or trout, 

 spotted with gray instead of red, and found in the larger lakes 

 of eastern North America. (After Jordan and Evermann) 



The species namaycush is found also in a lake (Henry) 

 in Idaho, in the Columbia river basin, and northwestward to 

 northern Alaska. 



139 Cristivomer namaycush (Walbaum) 



Lake Trout; Salmon Trout 



Salmo namaycush WALBAUM, Ariedi. Gen. Pise. Ill, 68, 1792. Hudson Bay, 

 based on the Namaycush Salmon of Pennant; RICHARDSON, Fauna 

 Bor.-Amer. Ill, 179, pi. 79 & pi. 85, fig. 1, 1836, Great Lakes; THOMP- 

 SON, Nat Hist. Vermont, I, 140, figure, 1842; KIBTLAND, Bost. Jour. 

 Nat. Hist. IV, 25, pi. Ill, fig. 2, 1844; GUNTHER, Cat Fish. Brit Mus. 

 VI, 123, 1866. 



Salmo pallidus RAFINESQUE, Amer. Month. Mag. II, 120, December, 1817. 

 Lake George, Lake Champlain and other lakes; not ascending brooks. 



Salmo amethystinus MITCHILL, Jour. Ac. Nat Sci. Phila. I, 410, 1818. 



Salmo hoodii RICHARDSON, op. cit. 17, pi. 82, fig. 2, pi. 83, fig. 2, 1836. 



Salmo confinis DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 238, pi. 38, fig. 123, 1842. 



Salmo amethystus DE KAY, op. cit. 240, pi. 76, fig. 241. 



Salmo adirondacus NORRIS, American Angler's Book, 255, 1865. 



Salmo siscowet GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VI, 124, 1866. 



Salvelinus namaycush JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 317, 

 1883; GOODE, Fish. & Fish. Ind. U. S. I, 485, pi. 191B, 1884; BEAN, 

 Fishes Penna. 82, color pi. 8, 1893. 



Cristivomer namaycush JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 504, 

 1896, pi. LXXXII, fig. 217, 1900; BEAN, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 IX, 348, 1897. 



The lake trout or Namaycush has a stout and moderately 

 elongate body. The caudal peduncle is slender; its hight little 

 more than one third of the greatest hight of the fish. The eye 

 is large, placed near the top of the head, two thirds as long as 



