syviKM iH' NuMENCLATriCK. |:;."'. 



Carolina and the nt'i«;libouring States, whirh is mentioned jis 

 the " White Sahnon," hy Smith, in his history of \'ir{^iniii; and 

 whieh is said to abonnd in the rivers of I'ennsylvania. This is, 

 1 donbt not, the lish alhuh-d to hy a recent writi'r in the " Spirit 

 of tlic Times," luj the Sns(jnehana Sahnon, nnhss j)erchanec 

 another nameh>ss fish, the Perm Lncinpcrca, is intended. The 

 sonthcrn Trout is of the Pen-h family — nothinj; more remote 

 from Trout — thou|^h in torm it has some resembhince to the 

 Salmonit/if. It is tlie (injstes Sa/nioidcs of Cuvier, the Ld/jfc 

 Salmo'ule of Laeepede, both terms indiiiitini; its family as of the 

 IV-rch or Hass, and its simihirity to the Sahnons ; l)ut it has 

 no ICn^Ush name at all, unless we adopt the vulgarism of ealliuj^ 

 it a Trout, which is no less absurd than it would be to call a 

 Pickerel, Salmon. 



These prevalent misnomers, and this total absence of real and 

 rational names, are of «,'rcat disadvantage, creating e.vccssivc 

 confusion, and puzzling all, except the scientific naturalist. It 

 is much to be regretted, that the Indian terms have not always 

 been retained ; for, when interpri'ti'd, tlii-y are almost in\arial)ly 

 found to be truly distinctive; and it is greatly to be doircd tliat, 

 on the (liscovtTV of new genera, or \arietics, this system of 

 nomenclature may be adopted, as it has biin by Professor 

 Agassiz, with regard to the Siskawitz, a new lacustrine Trout, 

 discovered by him, during the past summer, in the great waters 

 of Huron and Superior. 



With regard to tho.se misnamed U)ng ago, the misnomers of 

 which have become familiar, and as it were stereotyped by the 

 lapse of time, it is dilTicult U) say what is to he done, or how the 

 evil is to be rcmedietl; an<l it is to be feared that the Coreyonm 



