56 SALMONID^. 



contributed by tlie members of the Piseco Club to Dr. Bethune, 

 for the beautiful auti valuable edition of Walton's Angler, 

 recently given to the American world — with notes on American 

 fishing, the only fault of which is their brevity — by that accom- 

 plished fisherman and erudite scholar, who takes no shame to be 

 held a follower of the gentle art, and to possess the finest pisca- 

 torial library owned in the United States, whether by private 

 individual or collective body. 



" In June of this year," says the note to which I have refer- 

 ence, "the president of this club killed a red-fieshed Lake Trout 

 of 24 lbs. weight ! " And no more ! 



Information of the same kind has been given to me by 

 Mr. C. Webber, the author of some pleasant letters on 

 Hamilton County Fishing, published during the past year in the 

 columns of the New York Courier and Inquirer ; but, unfortu- 

 nately, none of the fortunate takers have noted any points 

 relative to this fish, on which any deliberate opinion can be 

 formed. 



The flesh of the ordinary Lake Trouts of America {Confinis, 

 Amethystus, and Siskaivitz) are all pale, dingy, yellowish buff, 

 tasteless, coarse, mudd}^, and flaccid. 



It seems to be admitted that the red-fleshed Lake Trout is of 

 more brilliant external colouring than the common variety. 



This is the fish of which I have spoken as being unques- 

 tionably a distinct species, if not an overgrown and gigantic 

 variety of the Brook Trout {Sahno FontinaUs). This latter, 

 I believe to be the case ; though it is impossible to pronounce 

 positively, without seeing the fish, and instituting careful 

 comparison. 



