30 DESCRIPTION, CLASSIFICATION, AND 



dore ; a yellow pike or a green pike ; a wall-eyed pike or a glass- 

 eye ; a hornfish or okaw ; a jack-salmon or a plain salmon. 



"Unless served with an injunction, I wish hereafter to write of 

 the fresh-water salmon, whenever I have occasion to do so, as the 

 ouananiche, no matter in what waters it may be found." 



The publication in recent years of a mass of er- 

 roneous information, not only in regard to the iden- 

 tity, the origin, and the habits of the ouananiche, but 

 also as respects its name, the alleged difficulty of its 

 capture, and its geographical distribution is no doubt 

 largely due to the enthusiasm of anglers, to whom its 

 game qualities were a revelation and itself a new va- 

 riety. In their ardor they never stopped to inquire 

 whether, and to what extent, it had been known to 

 others, thus recalling the observation placed in the 

 mouth of Halieus, in Sir Humphry Davy's Salmonia : 

 " When we are ardent, we are bad judges of the effort 

 we make; and an angler, who could be cool with a 

 new species of Salmo, I should not envy." 



Dr. Henry Yan Dyke, in his paper on " Trout-fish- 

 ing in the Traun," reprinted in Little Rivers, de- 

 scribes the lachs-forelle, or trout of Lake Griindlsee, 

 as a fish not unlike the landlocked salmon of the 

 Saguenay. He speaks of it as having silver sides 

 mottled with dark spots, a square, powerful tail, and 

 large fins. 



Not very long ago a suggestion that the fish found 

 in a lake near the cascades of the Columbia, on the 

 Pacific coast, were nearly akin to the ouananiche, ap- 

 peared in one of the sportsmen's papers. As the 

 Salmo solar is unknown to the waters of that coast, 

 the fish referred to cannot possibly be the ouananiche, 



