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basins (where they spent the hot season and could only 

 be tempted by bait), under the common local misnomer M 

 of Grayling. And glorious sport we found it ; the 

 dash with which this game fish seizes the fly, its 

 surprising jumps to the level of one's shoulder, and its 

 beautiful metallic hues, particularly in the spring, in- 

 vested it with an interest far exceeding that of fishing 

 for S. Fontinalis. 



At length, however, on referring several specimens 

 to Dr. Gilpin, they were identified by him in the 

 *^ Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute " as S. 

 Gloverii, or Glovers Salmon of Girard, better known 

 in New Brunswick as the Silvery Salmon Trout of the 

 Scoodic Lakes, where its abundance in the rapid waters 

 connecting the upper lakes of the St. Croix river, render 

 this locality one of the most famed fishing stations of the 

 Lower Provinces. The following is Dr. Gilpin's descrip- 

 tion taken from specimens forwarded by myself and 

 others : — 



" Length, about seventeen inches ; breadth of widest 

 part from first dorsal, two and a half inches ; length of 

 head nearly two and a half inches ; the shape of the 

 head fine and small, the back rising rather suddenly, 

 from posterior to head, sloping very gradually upward 

 to insertion of dorsal, thence downward to insertion of 

 tail, lower line corresponding with line of back ; a long 

 elegant shaped fish with a strong base to a powerful tail ; 

 eye large, nearly half an inch in diameter and two 

 diameters from end of nose ; opercles rounded, and with 

 the pre-opercles marked with numerous concentric 

 streaks ; the lower line of inter-opercle parallel with 

 line of the body, labials, both upper and lower, arched, 



