18 THE GAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 



The Lake Trout. — Salmon Trout {Salmo Confinis). 



The Sebago Trout {Salmo Sebago). 



The Arctic Charr {Salmo Hoodii). 



The Sea Trout.— White Trout, or Silver Trout {Salmo 

 Trutta Marina). 



The Brook Trout {Salmo Fontinalis). 

 Genus Osmerus. 



The Smelt {Osmerus Viridescens) . 

 Genus Thymallus. 



The Arctic Grayling {Thymallus Signifer). 

 Genus Coregonus. 



The White Fish {Coregonus Aldus). 



The Otsego Bass,* misnomer {Coregonus Otsego). 



II. — Family Silurid^, 



Containing many species, Cat-fish, Bull-heads, fee, 

 unworthy of notice, except 

 Genus Silurus. 



The Great Cat-fish. 



III. — Family Cyprinid^, 



Containing many varieties. The Chub, Sucker, Shiner, 

 Boach, Dace, Bream, &c., of no account except for 

 bait, unless it be two imported species, 



* This fish so closely resembles the White Fish {Coregonus Albiis), as to be con- 

 ceived by many persons to be merely a casual variety. This, however, does not 

 appear to be in truth the case. It is gi-eatly to be regretted, that trae and dis- 

 tinctive names should not be attached to fishes which, having been absurdly 

 misnamed by the ignorant early settlers, still go by those stupid misnomers — as in 

 the present instance ; where a fish having no possible analogy to a Bass, and, 

 indeed, belonging to a difierent class of fish, " soft-finned," is termed Bass. The 

 analogous fish in England are known as GwjTiiad, Vendace, and PoUan. I would 

 suggest " Otsego Lavaret" as a very suitable name for this unnamed species. 



