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oration in the adult, brownish above, 

 the sides more or less silvery, with 

 numerous black spots on sides of 

 head, on body, and on fins, and red 

 patches along the sides in the males ; 

 young specimens (parrs) with about 

 eleven dusky cross-bars, besides black 

 spots and red patches, the color as 

 well as form of the head and body 

 varying much with age, food and con- 

 dition; the black spots on the adult 

 often x shaped, or x x shaped ; weight, 

 fifteen to forty pounds. North At- 

 lantic, ascending all suitable rivers 

 and the region north of Cape Cod; 

 sometimes permanently land-locked 

 in lakes, where its habits and colora- 

 tions (but no specific characters) 

 somewhat when it becomes, in Amer- 

 ica, var. Sebago." 



It is worthy of note that some two 

 hundred years ago the Hudson was 

 a fine salmon stream, but the current 

 and tide of the time combined, now 

 leads to fortune rather than fishing, 

 and the same 4s true of other large 

 rivers along the North Atlantic coast, 

 southward of the Canadian border, 



