THE BROOK TROUT 



Tius alipes (7), alpinus nitidus (7), alpinus 

 stagnalis, alpinus arcturus, alpinus aureolus 

 (Sunapee trout), oquassa, oquassa naresi, 

 oquassa marstoni (7), lemanus (Lake of 

 Geneva). 



(1) The genus Salmo covers the true 

 salmon and the true trouts, of which our 

 rainbow, irideus, is the only one indigenous 

 to the continent on this side of the Rocky 

 Mountains, unless the truite saumonee of 

 the Trinity and a few other rivers be the 

 true sea trout {Salmo trutta), as seems 

 likely. 



(2) Oncorhynchus is the generic name of 

 the so-called 'salmons' of the Pacific coast. 



(3) Of Cristivomer there are but two spe- 

 cies, namaycush and siscowet, but a bewild- 

 ering number of local names are in use : — 

 lake trout (the one to be favoured), salmon 

 trout, salmon, trout, gray trout, lunge (not 

 maskinonge,) forked tail, tourilli, touladi, 

 etc., etc. The fish is infallibly distinguish- 

 able by a group of teeth on the crest behind 

 the vomer, absent in Salvelinus. 



(4) As to this classification of Thymallus 

 (grayling) authorities difTfer. 



(5) The charrs (genus Salvelinus) are not 

 'trout' from the stand-point of the ichthyol- 

 ogist; they are without vomerine teeth. 



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