SEA TUUL'T. 2:J 



deserted all the hirgcr rivers westward of the l^'iiobscot, with 

 the exception of a very few which arc, perhaps, still taken in the 

 Androscogf^in and the Kcnnchec, where, a few years ago, thiy 

 absolntely swarmed. 



With regard to this tish, however, 1 hope, before couehuling 

 this work, to receive more decided information from some of my 

 obliging correspondents in tli:it (piarter; and perhaps even 

 a specimen to compare with the other varieties of this genus. 



Again, of tlie Sea Trout or While Trout, 1 have my iloubts, 

 whether it be not a (Jrilse, or Salmon of the third year. It is 

 as yet, so fjir as I know, untigured and uudescribed ; but my 

 information concerning it from excellent tishermen on the 

 waters where it abounds — the rivers mainly, which fall into the 

 Bay of Gjispe and the CJulf of St. Lawrence — is so clear and 

 strong, that I prefer noting it as a (juestionable vjiriety, in the 

 hopes of calling to it the attention of older naturalists than 

 myself, and of those who have better opportunities of obtaining 

 and examining specimens. 



Lastly, the Ued-bellied Trout {Salutu Enjthrofjusttr), of Dr. 

 Dekay, I decline to insert on ids authority, being entirely lui- 

 convinecd as to its being anything nu)re than a mere accidental 

 variety. The whole of that region of lakes and rivers, in the 

 north-eastern angle of New York, in which this variety is said 

 to exist, teems with accidental varieties of the Hi-ook Trout, of 

 almost ever}' size, as well as shade and colour, Imth of flesh and 

 external tints. The Trout of no two of these lakes or rivers are 

 precisely identical. The Hnme may be said of IJrook Trout from 

 various waters in Long Island. These differences, however, are 

 not deemed suflicient (consisting, mainly, in vjiriations ot luu , 



