HABITS OF THE OUANANICHE 35 



prove to be as migratory a fish as the salmon, his 

 ancestor." 



The habits of the Canadian ouananiche, which has 

 always unobstructed access to the sea, disprove the 

 conclusions at which the above writer has arrived. 

 Because the salmon of the sea is not and could not 

 have been its ancestor, but is rather its wayward child, 

 migration is not among the instincts of the ouana- 

 niche, except under unnatural conditions, such as we 

 presume it must have found itself surrounded by in 

 the English waters from which it so promptly disap- 

 peared. Its environment was undoubtedly at fault, 

 and something was evidently wanting in the necessary 

 conditions of either the lake and river bed, the tem- 

 perature of the water, or the character and extent of 

 the food supply. 



