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the sliore. I was informed in the fur countries, that this fish preys on 

 insects, and that it occasionally though rarely takes a hook baited with 

 a small piece of meat. Dr. Todd found fresh-water shells and small 

 fishes in the stomachs of the Lake Huron Attihawmeg ; indeed shelly 

 mollusca Helix, Planorbis, Lymneus^ Paludina, &c. appear to be 

 a favorite food of several Trout and Coregoni, both in Europe and 

 America. *> 



The fact of the Attihawmeg feeding on shell-fish is greatly corrobo- 

 rated by the circumstance of its differing from all the other known 

 Coregoni in the extraordinary thickness of its stomach, which resem- 

 bles the gizzard of a fowl ; the same being the case with the Gillaroo 

 or shell-fish-eating Trout of the Irish lochs ; and, I have little doubt, 

 with the crab-eating Trout of the Marshpee river in this country. 



To the excellence of the White-Fish, I can bear personal testimony 

 when on the table, but I have never had an opportunity of examining 

 it ; and I am indebted for the description below, to the Fauna Boreali- 

 Americana, of the author I have already so often quoted. 



I am informed that this fish is occasionally taken by persons engaged 

 in trolling for the Lake Trout, or throwing the fly for the Black Bass, 

 Gristes Nigricans, nor can I at all doubt that were his habits properly 

 observed and carefully studied by a scientific angler, judging from what 

 has been stated above in relation to his food, he might be taken with 

 the hook with as much certainty as any other of the lake fish, unless, 

 perhaps, the Black Bass, and he would assuredly show great sport at 

 the end of a long line, being both a powerful and active fish. 



The average weight of this fish appears to be three or four pounds, 

 but when very fat, it is often taken iip to seven or eight ; and in par- 

 ticular localities it attains a much greater size, having been caught in 

 Lake Huron of thirteen or fourteen, and in Lake Manito, it is said, of 

 twenty. 



One of seven pounds, caught in Lake Huron, measured twenty-seven 

 inches in length. 



In form, the Attihawmeg is very deep in comparison to its length ; 

 one of the ordinary size, taken in Pine Island lake, measuring as five 

 to seventeen, exclusive of the caudal fin ; but when very fat, its depth 

 is as one to three. 



The body is compressed, being much less thick than deep. The 



