SALMONIDJE. 



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ABDOMINAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



THE WHITE-FISH. 



ATTIHAWMEG. 

 Coregonus Albus ; Le Sueur, Cuvier. 



THIS and the succeeding fish are the last two of the Salmon family, 

 and the only two of their own peculiar sub-genus found within the 

 limits of the United States and British Provinces, although there are 

 several other species in the Arctic regions. 



In Europe they have several equivalents which are generally known 

 as Lavarets ; of these are the well-known British species, the Gwyniad, 

 the Vendace, and the Powan, of England and Scotland, and the 

 Pollan of Ireland, all closely connected, and yet perfectly distinct from 

 the analogous fish of America. 



Here, unfortunately, these fine fish have no names at all, save the 

 trivial designations or absurd misnomers given to them by the first rude 

 settlers of the regions in which they are found. 



The fish of which we are now speaking is probably the most deli- 

 cious of all the purely fresh- water varieties for such to all intents and 

 purposes it is, as a table fish, for it is not found within the limits of 

 civilization, except in the lakes above the Falls of Niagara, which 

 preclude the possibility of communication with the sea. It is, how- 



