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deserted all the larger rivers westward of the Penobscot, with 

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

 Androscoggin and the Kennebec, where, a few years ago, they 

 absolutely swarmed. 



With regard to this fish, however, I hope, before concluding 

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

 obliging correspondents in that quarter; and perhaps even 

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



Again, of the Sea Trout or White Trout, I have my doubts, 

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

 as yet, so far as I know, unfigured and undescribed ; but my 

 information concerning it from excellent fishermen on the 

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

 Bay of Gaspe and the Gulf of St. Lawrence — is so clear and 

 strong, that I prefer noting it as a questionable variety, in the 

 hopes of calling to it the attention of older naturahsts than 

 myself, and of those who have better opportunities of obtaining 

 and examining specimens. 



Lastly, the Red-bellied Trout [Salmo Erythrogaster), of Dr. 

 Dekay, I decline to insert on his authority, being entirely un- 

 convinced as to its being anything more 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 Brook Trout, of 

 almost every size, as well as shade and colour, both of flesh and 

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

 precisely identical. The same may be said of Brook Trout from 

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

 not deemed sufficient (consisting, mainly, in variations of hue, 



