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on the gill-covers like the salmon. The mouth is furnished 

 with teeth on the palate, tongue, vomerine, palatine, and max- 

 illary, like those of the brook trout, or as are nearly all the 

 young of the Salmonidce / but its head is longer than that 

 of the common trout, and much larger in proportion than the 

 salmon's. Its scales are small, and the body is entirely white 

 below the lateral line, and very light gray above it, all shin- 

 ing with metallic lustre. It is better game than any other 

 lake family of the genus Salmo, and will readily take the fly 

 on the surface of the water. With a two-handed trout-rod, 

 fifteen feet long, a person unskilled in fly-fishing has taken 

 over a hundred in three hours of these transcendent beauties. 



THE WHITE TBOUT. Salmo albus. 



Some persons have supposed this blonde beauty " a land- 

 locked salmon," than which nothing can be much more ab- 

 surd, for it has the common egress of a commodious river 

 which debouches in Passamaquoddy Bay, while those of the 

 lakes in the provinces have equally favorable avenues of es- 

 cape. No, it is a comparatively new luxury to the American 

 angler, and well worthy his attention. 



Though many anglers use a two-handed fly-rod for taking 

 the white trout, yet it is more artistic to use a half-pound fly- 

 rod and single fly ; the cinnamon, Montreal with claret body 

 and brown mallard wing, with the yellow and blue profes- 

 sors, are all the flies needed for any weather, though the 

 coachman of white wing and peacock's herl body is a good 

 sunset fly, and the red ibis wing with silver body sometimes 

 takes very well. 



The late Rev. Dr. Bethune regarded this fish and its sport- 

 ive ways with enthusiasm, and the borders of Schoodic lakes 



