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he can carry away or dispose of, leaving the meat rotting 

 in the woods. To all such, Avaunt ! say we ; wholesale 

 and thoughtless slaughter, except on the fiercer species 

 — the natural enemies of man — is always to be depre- 

 cated ; but the true sportsman we confidently invite to 

 the forests and rivers of British North America, believ- 

 ing that his example in carrying out the fair English 

 principles of sport, will tend much to the preservation 

 of game. 



GLOVEE'S SALMON. 



S. Gloverii (Girard.) 



My first acquaintance with this handsome salmonoid 

 began many years since, when I would take basketsfull 

 in the month of April in the runs connecting the upper 

 lakes of the Shubenacadie river in Nova Scotia. At first 

 I took them to be young salmon, both from their jump- 

 ing propensities when hooked and the resemblance they 

 bore to the parr on scraping away the scales from the 

 sides. Yet their rich olive black backs and beautiful 

 bronze spots on the head and gill covers made them 

 appear dissimilar, and I could no longer doubt them 

 distinct from salmon, when I had succeeded in taking 

 them of one, two, and three pounds weight, and still 

 spotted, in the early summer, quite dissimilar in colour 

 from grilse, and far exceeding the size of smolts, which 

 the smaller individuals somewhat resembled. Finding out 

 their haunts, and seasons for changing their abode, we 

 were content to take them in the spring and late in the 

 autumn, in the runs and streams lying between their 

 spawning grounds and the deep waters of large lake 



