IN A FISHING COUNTRY 



As to some of the charrs there has not yet 

 been opportunity for decisive examination 

 and final opinion. Probably environment 

 has received insufficient credit for bringing 

 about differences that seem, at the first 

 blush, striking enough to warrant discrim- 

 ination. The terminology shows excesses, 

 and perhaps defects. The North Ameri- 

 can charrs are said to be under competent 

 study at the present time, and it may be that 

 this will lead to revolutionary conclusions 

 Much uncertainty arises from the multi- 

 plication of names, many of them mislead- 

 ing; sportsmen have it in their hands to 

 cure the evil by rejecting all but those 

 which have the best title to live. 



My brief says that the family of the 

 Salmonidae belongs to the sub-order of the 

 Malacopterygian fishes, and embraces the 

 sub-families of the Coregoninae (white- 

 fish, lake herring) and the Salmoninae. Of 

 Salmoninae, the genera are: Salmo (1), 

 Oncorhynchus (2), Cristivomer (3), 

 Thymallus {4-) , Salvelinus (5). It is with 

 the species and sub-species of Salvelinus 

 that we are concerned. 



These are given as fontinalis (6), fontin- 

 alis agassizii (Dublin Pond), parkei 

 (Dolly Varden), alpinus (saibling), alpi- 

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