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and would most certainly not have been in condition to 

 spawn again before the following year. 



2. Salmo trutta, which is, I think, identical with the 

 British sea trout. In the Bay of Chaleur the sea trout 

 follow the smelts into the mouths of the rivers in the 

 month of May, and remain in the tideways of the rivers 

 for a considerable time swimming backwards and forwards 

 with the tides, and feeding on smelts. They can then 

 be taken with the bait, but will not as a rule rise at the 

 fly. Off the wharfs at Dalhousie and Campbelton, and 

 about the head of the tide in the liestigouche river, the 

 boys of the country make immense bags of these beautiful 

 fish, which average about 2 Ibs. and run as high as 8 Ibs. 

 The next time we see the S. trutta is far up the rivers, 

 generally at the mouth of cold streams, where they lie in 

 the months of July and August for the sake of coolness. 

 The colder the water the more they seem to like it, and in 

 this respect they differ from the S. solar, which seems 

 to prefer a moderate temperature. Although an odd sea 

 trout may be taken now and then by the salmon fisher in 

 the lower portions of the rivers, they seem to make little 

 stay after they leave the tideway till they have pushed 

 right up to the mouth of the little rivers in which they 

 mean to spawn. At the mouth of Tracey's Brook on the 

 Restigouche, and at Assamaquagan, Aniquag, and other 

 streams on the Metapedia, they take the fly voraciously 

 about the 1st of August. 



3. There is another migratory trout which I have else- 

 where alluded to, but which I regret to say my ignorance 

 of natural history prevents my describing so that it can 

 be identified. I have met with it in the rivers Nouvelle 



