102 REINDEER LAKE AND FORT DU BROCHET 



name. They weigh, as a rule, between two 

 pounds and four pounds. In colour the fish 

 is white underneath, with the under-fins tinted 

 with shades of yellow and reddish chrome ; the 

 back and upper sides are medium dark shades of 

 blackish-brown with a clear pinkish tint over- 

 lying the ground colour on the full length of the 

 middle sides ; the gills are yellowish. 



In summer these fish are often seen in great 

 shoals in the clear shallow waters of rapids, and 

 their colours then show beneath the surface with 

 oriental brilliancy. 



The Black Sucker is very similar, but lacks 

 the bright colouring of the Red variety. Both 

 are fish imperturbable by any kind of lure, 

 failing the possession of nets they may be speared 

 in shallow water. 



The Alaska Herring or Mooneye Cisco 

 is probably the strange little fish which I saw 

 taken for food purposes at the south end of 

 Reindeer Lake. None were caught at Fort Du 

 Brochet at the north end of the same lake, and 

 the Indians declare they are known only at the 

 first-named locality, which appears very strange. 

 I saw many of those fish when passing on my way 

 north, but omitted to secure specimens. And 

 unfortunately when I returned in winter the 

 lake was frozen, and none were procurable, though 

 I tried. 



I am unable therefore to positively establish 

 the identity of this species, but certainly record 

 the location so that at least the presence of this 

 small herring-like fish, which is apparently pecu- 

 liar to one particular section of water, may be 



