THE WING-FOOTED 



ety of the widely distributed Alpine 

 charr, and that the home of this stranger 

 is Greenland and Boothia Felix. 



The thing that amazes and fascinates 

 one is that the wanderer should be dis- 

 covered in a lakelet forty miles from the 

 St. Lawrence and two thousand feet 

 above it, at so great a distance from his 

 true range. Two other lakes a dozen 

 miles away, and on a higher level, are 

 supposed to contain these fish, but only 

 a few have been taken and they have 

 never been properly identified. The Lac 

 de Marbre trout or marstoni, which ich- 

 thyologists do not class under alpinus, 

 have points of resemblance, but also vari- 

 ations greater than can be accounted for 

 on the basis of mere environment. The 

 Sunapee trout, a sub-species of alpinus, 

 also show a family likeness, and have 

 taken to themselves the title aureolus, 

 which one would have wished to confer 

 on our wing-footed ones if the field were 

 open. It is evident that there is a good 



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