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tape worm goes through a series of metamorphoses, 

 and when found in any animal must have previously 

 reached a certain development in some other animal, 

 of which it has been the prey. Cysts of the tape 

 worm may have been formed in the sandworm, and 

 so passed into the salmon and there developed. 

 ^Whether the theory be scientifically correct, or not, 

 it sufficiently accounts for a phenomenon which has 

 hitherto baffled investigation. The salmon either 

 takes his tape worm au naturel, or at second hand. 



NOTE (referring to Winninish on page 29). Numbers of heavy Salmo 

 Winninish have been caught in the Ashuapmouchouan, Metabachouan, 

 Peribonka, and other tributaries of Lake St. John, in September. These 

 upper rivers are their spawning grounds, and not the riffs of the Grande 

 Discharge. 



