248 NEW YORK STATE MUSEfUM 



But here he is a straggling fish, and not in his regular home^ 

 There is no steady migration of salmon to this river. Though 

 pains hare been taken to cherish the breed, salmon has never 

 frequented the Hudson in any other manner than as a stray."^ 

 In 1842 DeKay published the following note: 



The sea salmon rarely now appears on our coast except as a 

 straggling visitor. Such an occurrence took place in August 

 1840, when a salmon weighing 8 pounds entered the Hudson 

 river, and ascended it more than 150 miles, when it was taken 

 near Troy. . . It now is only seen on our northern bor- 

 ders, ascending the St Lawrence from the sea, and appearing 

 in Lake Ontario in April, and leaving it again in October or 

 November. They were formerly very abundant in the lakes in 

 the interior of the state which communicated with Lake Ontario; 

 but the artificial impediments thrown in their way have gi'eatly 

 decreased their numbers, and in many cases caused their total 

 destruction. I have seen some from Oneida lake weighing 10 

 and 15 pounds. . . They are occasionally found in Lake 

 Ontario during the whole year; but, as the same instinct which 

 compels them to ascend rivers also leads them again to the sea, 

 and as there is no barrier opposed to their return, we may pre- 

 sume that these are sickly or possibly barren individuals. 



Experiments for restocking the Hudson are now in progress,, 

 and it is probable that the river may again become a salmoiS' 

 stream. 



132 Salmo salar sebago (Girard) 



Landlocked Salmon (Introduced) 



Salmo seharjo Gieard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 380, 1853, Sebago Laktv 



Maine; GxJnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VI, 153, 1866. 

 Salmo salar var. sebago Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 312,- 



1883. 

 Salmo (jloverii Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 85, 1854; Gunther, Cat. 



Fish. Brit. Mus. VI, 153, 1866. 

 Salmo salar sebago Jordan & Evermann. Bull. 47, U. S. IS^t. Mus. 487. 



1806; Bean, Bull. Aiiier. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 344, 1897. 



There are at least two well marked races of salar salmon 

 which do not enter the sea but live permanently in fresh water. 

 Both of these differ from the migratory salmon in several par- 

 ticulars: they are smaller, their eggs are larger, they retain 

 the parr nuirks much longer, they are more subject to disease 

 attending the egg-producing season, and the young grow more 



