Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 505 



and jaws proportionately lengthened and pointed. Maxillary nearly half 

 the length of the head; interorbital space nearly one-fourth; teeth very 

 strong. Caudal fin well forked; adipose fin small. General coloration 

 dark gray, sometimes pale, sometimes almost black; everywhere with 

 rounded paler spots, which are often reddish tinged ; head usually vermic- 

 nlate above ; dorsal and caudal reticulate with darker. Length 36 inches. 

 Reaches weight of 60 to 100 pounds, averaging about 17. Great Lake 

 region and lakes of northern New York, New Hampshire, and Maine, the 

 head waters of the Columbia and Fraser rivers, streams of* Vancouver Island, 

 and north to t lie Arctic Circle, said not to enter tidal waters ; very abund- 

 ant in the larger bodies of water; varying in form and color in the different 

 lakes; specimens from Lac des Neiges, Canada, said to be almost black 

 (Garman), others variously paler and gray. Some in smaller lakes short 

 and deep in body. (An Indian name.) 



Namaiicn*l< >../,,*,/, PENNANT, Arctic Zoology, In trod., 191, 1792, Hudson Bay. 

 Balmo namaycwsh, WALBAUM, Artedi Piscium, G8, 1792, Hudson Bay; based on the Namaycush 



Salmon of PKNXANT; GCNTHER, Cat., vi, 123, 1866, and of authors generally. 

 &il,n<, I,U;<IH*, KAFINKSQUE, Amer. Monthly Mag., December, 1817, 120, Lake Champlain 

 Salmo amethystiitii*, MITCHILL, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1818, 410, Sault Ste. Marie. 

 Salmo ho'iflii, Pii< -HA HURON, App. Ross's Voyage, LVIII, 1835, in part; specimen from Boothia 



Felix; lii' HAKIISON, Fauna Bor.-Amer., in, 174, 1836, Mingan River. 

 Salmo confini*, HE KAY, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 23fc, 1842, Louis Lake, Hamilton County, New 



York; Silver Lake, Pennsylvania. 

 Balms; IT, Am. Journ. Sci. Arts, 1851, Vol. xi, 340, Lake Winnipiseogee, 



New Hampshire. 

 Salmo twnn, H AM UN, The Togue, in HOLMES, 2d Annual Report Maine Fish Comm., 1862, 109, 



Lakes of Maine. 



Salmo adirvntlaciu, NOREIS, American Angler's Book, 255, 1865, Adirondack Lakes. 

 Salmo nizcowet, GONTHEE, Cat., vi, 123, 1860; not of AOASBIZ. 

 ^ai-i-iutii- MMMfi >//, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 317, 1883. 



Represented in Lake Superior by 



782. CRISTIVOMER NAMAYCUSH SISCOWET (Agassiz). 



(SlSCOWET.) 



Scales rather small, about 175 in the lateral line. Body short and deep, 

 covered with thick skin, there being an excessive tendency to the devel- 

 opment of fatty tissue. Head very short and deep, its upper surface 

 broad and short, covered by a skin so thick as to completely hide the 

 bones; no distinct median carina. Mouth very large, its gape narrower 

 than in C. namay<:n*li. Teeth weaker than in C. namaycush ; supplemental 

 bone also shorter and broader. Maxillary a little more than half the 

 length of the head. Caudal fin well forked. Coloration as in C. namay- 

 cush, but usually paler ; fin rays the same. Lake Superior ; abundant, 

 but not yet found elsewhere. Very close to the preceding, but differing 

 in the shortness and breadth of the bones of the head and in the extreme 

 fatness of the flesh. It is probably a local variety rather than a distinct 

 species. (An Indian name, probably from the same root as Cisco.) 



Salmo fdscoH-et, AGASSI/,, L;tk<- Superior, 'A'.','.',, 1850, Lake Superior. 



Salmo siskawitz, AGASSI/., in Jlerh-.-rt, Frank Forester 1 B Fish and Fifthing, 112, with plate, 1860, 



Lake Superior 



Salmo urrintus, BAUNS'IOV. K<|,t. Hf-hf-m-u Canada, Lrake Superior; reference uncertain. 

 Salvelinus namaycush ts'utcowet, JOKDAM & GILBEET, Synopsis, 318, 1883. 



