10 DESCRIPTION, CLASSIFICATION, AND 



aniche, it may be safely concluded that, as in the case 

 of the so-called landlocks of Maine, they do not 

 descend to salt water in any considerable numbers, 

 though, like them, they have usually uninterrupted 

 communication with the sea always towards it, and 

 in some cases, as in that of Lake St. John and most of 

 its tributary waters, in both directions. As Mr. At- 

 kins says of the Maine fish, I am not aware that 

 the descent of any of the ouananiche to the sea has 

 been observed. But there are well-authenticated in- 

 stances of solitary specimens having been found close 

 to the salt water of the St. Lawrence in the lower 

 stretches of the Saguenay. There is even a story of 

 stragglers having been occasionally caught in Tadous- 

 sac Bay. Ex-Lieutenant-Governor Angers, of Que- 

 bec, took a small ouananiche some years ago, while 

 fishing for sea-trout at the mouth of the Marguerite, 

 some fifteen miles from Tadoussac ; and Mr. Walter 

 Brackett, the famous fish artist of Boston, who could 

 not possibly be mistaken in his specimen, reports the 

 capture of others below his salmon waters upon the 

 same stream. The lowest point in the Saguenay 

 River in which there is well-established record of the 

 fish having been seen in any considerable number 

 is in the vicinity of Ohicoutimi, where many of them 

 are annually taken at the foot of the lowest rapids of 

 the river, and but a short distance from the head of 

 steamboat navigation. That few if any of them de- 

 scend to the sea is evident from the difference in color 

 between their flesh and that of the sea-going salmon. 

 The ouananiche prey upon the ouitouche and other 

 small white fish found in the streams and lakes that 



