338 AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



"The Namaycush reaches its greatest perfection in the 

 northern parts of Lakes Huron and Michigan, and in Lake 

 Superior, where it is quite generally known as the Mackinaw 

 Trout. In New York lakes the same species occurs, being 

 known by the names of Lake Salmon, Lake Trout, and Sal- 

 mon Trout." This by no means, however, exhausts the list 

 of names with which he is enriched, for in Canada and 

 Maine he is known as "tuladi," "longe" or "lunge," in Vermont 

 as "togue," and he will respond, if you call him Red Trout, 

 Gray Trout, Forked-tail Trout, Great-lake Trout, or Lesser- 

 lake Trout. 



The scientific description of this fish is given as follows, by 

 Professor David Starr Jordan, of the Indiana State Univer- 

 sity: 



" Salvelinus namaycasW (Walbaum) Goode Macki- 

 naw Trout, or Great-lake Trout, also locally known as 

 "longe," "togue," "Salmon Trout," etc. (the latter name to 

 be discouraged, as it is applied in England and elsewhere to 

 very different species, as Salmo fario, etc.) 



"(A). Characters shared with other Chars, but not with 

 the species Salmo: 



"Vomer boat-shaped, the shaft much depressed; no teeth 

 inserted on the shaft; scales very small, and somewhat im- 

 bedded, about 200, in a longitudinal series; fins moderate, 

 the anal rather short, 9 to 1 1 developed rays; the caudal forked 

 in the young, becoming nearly truncate with age. Branch- 

 iostegals, 11 or 12; gill rakers, 16 to 20; pyloric caeca rather 

 few and large. Sexual peculiarities not strongly marked; 

 the breeding males with the premaxillaries lengthened, and 

 with a fleshy projection at the tip of the lower jaw. Color- 

 ation dark, without black spots; sides with round spots of red- 

 dish or grayish; the head, back, dorsal and caudal fins usually 

 marked with wavy lines. 



"(B). Characters distinguishing S. Xm/iayaishhom other 

 Chars: 



