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spots, continue to extreme headwaters beyond the 

 lake until they are stopped by falls. In Lake St. 

 John they subsist largely upon watouche, or whitefish, 

 which are replaced by smelts in Lake Sebago, and 

 other waters of Maine and Canada, and by caplin 

 in the ocean. Observers cannot but be impressed 

 by the coincidence that these several food fish all 

 belong to sub-species of Salmonidse, and that salmon 

 are perhaps more partial to their own kind as an 

 article of diet than to aliens, especially when they 

 pose as ravenous kelts in the winter season and 

 early spring. Fartherniore, it must be added that 

 the winninish exhibit the peculiarities of all salmon 

 in spawning time. As the season progresses they 

 lose their lustrous sheen of the early spring, and in 

 fall become dark and cloudy, and thus have deceived 

 some superficial observers who imagined them to be 

 different species of the same fish. 



Some twenty years ago I wrote in the Fishing 

 Tourist to the effect that " in winter they are scattered 

 through the deep water of Lake St. John, and in 

 June they descend Jo the series of rapids below to 

 spawn." I wrote under the impression that they 



