up the river; the Speckled Trout, graceful and 

 supple, joyously animated, an objet of ad- 

 miration or of longing on the part of the sports 

 fisherman. 



at the fisherman's hait, is the Garpike, clad 

 in its véritable armour of hard shell and armed 

 witi a spur-like mouth, a late survivor of the 

 paleozoic fauna. 



In this kingdom where the Speckled Trout 

 merits its ccnferred title of prineess, we 5nd 

 its relatives — the other species of Salmonicae: 

 Lake Trout, Red, Brown, Rainbow; the Splake 

 Trout, a marvellous resuit of pisciculture, the 

 hydrid issue of Speckled Trout crossed with 

 Lake Trout. 



Farther on is the fighting Bass which 

 seems to be always on the alert, its fins qui- 

 vering, its muscles taut, ready to take a leap 

 at hait. Quieter, and less agile, there is the 

 Bowfin, whose tapering body obeys the sinuous 

 undulations of its long dorsal fin. Still farther, 

 the différent species of Crappies offer the 

 opalescent refleetions of their spotted and 

 coloured coats to the play of light. 



The Striped Bass, in its turn, draws 

 attention through its vivacity, its haughty 

 bearing, its green and silver scaling, the streaks 

 of dark dots that mark its sides and from which 

 it dérives its name. 



What to say about the Northern Pike. 

 voracious, slender, a powerful swimmer! And 

 of the giant of this family, the Muskellunge, 

 terror of the young fish of which it makes a 

 carnage! Less known, because it does not bite 



And hère is the other relie of a past era, 

 whose ancestors lived in the upper Cretaceous. 

 the Sturgeon. It is a fish armed like a knigh»^ 

 cf the Middle Ages, with its sensitive barbs 

 scenting the bottom of the basin in search of 

 food which it draws into its tubular mouth! 



Who does not recognize the Eel with its 

 bronzed refleetions and its supple undulations? 

 Behind its glass partition it pursues a semblance 

 to that long voyage it undertook before its 

 capture towards the distant vastness of the 

 gulf-weed sea ! 



Visitors linger with delight before the 

 agile évolutions of the Smelts, animated in their 

 rapid and synchronized movements, aligned. 

 parallel, obedient — it would seem — to Bome 

 mysterious choreography which directs their 

 group swimming. A last glance at the greedy 

 Carps, the indolent Channel catfish. the gold- 

 spangled Pike, and we pass on to the numerous 

 species that are exclusively marine but of no 

 Isss varied form although they are not of such 

 attractive colouring. The Cod dominâtes ail. 

 this species of primary importance as food for 

 humans. It wears on its coat the glaucous 

 refleetions of the sea where its countless iree 

 relatives live in schools. Hère is the Dogfish. 

 cousin to the large sharks which are the subject 



