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and Escuminac ; also, I think, on the extreme head waters 

 of the Miramichi. Its average size is larger than the 

 8. trutta, its colour deeper, and the spots more clearly 

 defined, and its habits seem identical with those of the 

 8. salar. 



4. The tooladi (S. confinis) I have only seen in the 

 Metapedia lake. It is very like the great lake trout of 

 Scotland and Ireland. It is a non-migratory fish, though 

 in the Metapedia there is no obstruction. It is coarse 

 eating, and gives no sport to the angler, though it attains 

 an immense size. I am told by the Indians that they 

 have speared them as high as 30 Ibs. 



5. The brook trout (S. Fontindlis). In its habits, food, 

 and other particulars there are some remarkable points of 

 difference between this fish and its British congener. In 

 winter they leave the rapid rivers and move either to the 

 tideways or to lakes and deep holes. At the mouth of the 

 Kestigouche they are caught in large numbers and of 

 considerable size, through holes in the ice, in the months 

 of February and March ; and indeed at all seasons of the 

 year the brook trout are to be caught in the tideways of 

 the Bay of Chaleur rivers. I have noticed the same in 

 Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island. Here they 

 acquire that silvery hue which in the old country we 

 associate with the S. trutta. Nor is the resemblance 

 between the two species confined to colour alone, for the 

 good feeding they get in the tideways tends to build them 

 up in shape like the sea trout, and even to make the flesh 

 more firm and pink than in brook trout in general. The 

 American brook trout is a more voracious and indiscrimi- 

 nate feeder than his British congener. I have caught them 



