THE TALE OF THE FISHES 



part of the roof of the mouth. Trouts (Salmones) 

 have a single or double row of teeth on this bone. 

 Charrs {Salvelini) have teeth only on the head or 

 chevron of the vomer in the back part of the roof of 

 the mouth, and these often feebly developed. The 

 charrs are more beautiful, more gracefully shaped, 

 more intelligent, wary, and difficult of capture, and 

 more delicately flavored, than the trouts, and hence 

 are more highly treasured by the angler. They are 

 accounted the aristocracy of our Salmonidae. The 

 common lake trout {togue or longe), the blue back, 

 the Dolly Varden trout, a western cousin of our brook 

 trout, and the Sunapee form are charrs. The cut- 

 throat or black-spotted trout of the Pacific Slope, the 

 rainbow trout, with the brown trout of Europe and 

 the Loch Leven trout, both which latter have been 

 acclimated in American waters, are true trouts. 



Our discussion regarding the Sunapee saibling 

 brought out the fact that there were congeneric sea-run 

 forms in Canada, and that our fish and forms like it 

 of a highly variable Alpine charr, were indigenous to 

 the Northland. So we decided on the evidence that 

 it was home-grown — a representative relic of a race 



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