THE ARCTIC GRAYLING. ]69 



BACK'S GRAYLING. 



THE ARCTIC GRAYLING. 



Thi/Diallus Siyniftr — Richardson, Cuvier. Hewlooh Powak — Esquimaux. 

 Poisson Bleu — Can. Voy. 



Arctic Grayling. 



The exceeding beauty and remarkable game qualities of this 

 noble fish have induced me to give him a place in these pages, 

 to which his place of nativity hardly entitles him, as he is, I 

 fear, to be found nowhere southward of the 62nd parallel of 

 latitude, between Mackenzie's River and the Welcome. " Its 

 highly appropriate Esquimaux title," says Dr. Richardson, 

 from whose fine work on the Fauna of Arctic America, I 

 have borrowed both the matter of this article and the cut 

 above, " denoting * wing-like fin,' alludes to its magnificent 

 dorsal ; and it was in reference to the same feature that I 

 bestowed upon it the specific appellation of Signifer, ' the 

 standard-bearer,' intending also to advert to the rank of my 

 companion. Captain Back, then a midshipman, who took the 

 first specimen we saw with the artificial fly." 



I may remark here, that the European Grayling has the 



