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son ; the lower fins are margined with a white 

 strip, as in fontinalis, but unlike it, the back is 

 not marbled or vermiculated. On the sides of 

 the body are round, red spots and the scales are 

 " infinitely little," hardly if ever seen by the 

 ordinary naked eye, there being about two hun- 

 dred of them placed along the lateral line from 

 the gill covers to the base of the tail fin. All 

 forms of the saiblings rise freely to the fly, if any- 

 thing being more sprightly in rising and in their 

 eagerness more frequently missing the feathers, 

 than our brook trout. The ordinary gear and 

 flies used in fishing f or fontinalis will lure these 

 saiblings, except the Sunapee trout, which are 

 generally taken from deep waters by still fishing 

 or trolling. But little is known of the three 

 Arctic saiblings, the long-finned charr (Salvelinus 

 alpinus alipes\ the Greenland charr (Salvelinus 

 alpinus stagnalis), and the Floeberg charr (Salve- 

 linus alpinus arcturus). The first (alipes) is 

 noted for its very high or long-rayed fins, for 

 its forked tail and the very small size of the 

 adipose fin; the second (stagnalis) for the dark 

 green, with lighter green streaks, on the back, 

 for its greenish upper fins and lower pink ones; 

 the third (arcturus) for the absence of red or 



