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There is a marked difference in the dental systems, and in the 

 colors of body and fins. The confittis, when first caught, is of a 

 bluish-black on sides and body ; white below ; sides of head and 

 body, base of first dorsal, caudal and anal fins crowded with nu- 

 merous rounded, irregular grey spots. The symmetrica is light to 

 dark brown on back and head ; sides dark grey above lateral line, 

 and light salmon below ; pectoral and ventrals grey. The whole 

 fish, including fins, is thickly sprinkled with small circular spots of 

 a drab color on sides, olive on back approaching to light salmon 

 below. They are caught in great abundance with the hook in 

 winter, through the ice, and are highly esteemed for the table. It 

 is hardly worth while in this work, to educe arguments to convince 

 the skeptical ; our readers will not care much whether there is one 

 species or a dozen, if so be that they only bite well. 



Landlocked Salmon ; wininnish, or ouininnish ; Sebago Trout. — Salmo sebago : 

 the young fish^/oz/erz.— Girard. 



Much needless speculation has been indulged in during the 

 past twenty years, and much discussion excited, as to whether this 

 fish was a true salmon, which having been to the sea, preferred 

 not to go there ; or that, being a true salmon, and debarred from 

 the sea, he chose like a sensible fellow to content himself in fresh 

 water ; or that by some mischances, he had become " degene- 

 rate " in size, beauty, and succulency, and unworthy of his regal 

 progenitors ; or whether he was not, after all, truly a variety of 

 lake trout. So much speculation, we repeat, has been indulged in, 

 that it would be a waste of our space to review the pros and cons 

 of the argument, suffice to say that one most excellent authority, 

 Dr. A. C. Hamlin, pronounces it identical with the sea salmon, 

 and exhibiting no radical differences, except in the one peculiarity 

 that it does not go to salt water. The bony structure and its fin 

 system are precisely the same as those of sahno salar. Therefore 

 we are at liberty to call it a salmon. 



And yet, if we examine its fin system and compare it with that 

 of the togue, we find that the two formula vary but slightly : 

 which see : 



Landlocked salmon — Br. 12; P. 15; V. 9; A. 10 ; D. 12; C. 

 19. Togue Br. 12; P. 12-13; V. 9; A. 11-12 ; D. 13 ; C. 19. 



