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ducted the revision of the zoological terms in the 

 1892 edition of Webster ; but I have no hesitation in 

 declaring that neither the orthography "winninish" 

 nor yet the definition above quoted is the best avail- 

 able. The ouananiche of Lake St. John is not a 

 " landlocked " salmon at all, as I have already shown. 

 In all waters tributary to Lake St. John it has free 

 access to the sea. The better definition of the name 

 of the fish when limited, as it is in Webster, to speci- 

 mens having a Canadian habitat, would be " the fresh- 

 water salmon of Lake St. John and Labrador," or 

 " the fresh- water salmon of the Labrador peninsula." 

 The mistake of calling the ouananiche a landlocked 

 salmon is a common one, and nearly as old as the 

 literature of the subject. It is somewhat remarkable 

 that while "winninish" is treated in Webster's as of 

 Canadian origin, it is applied by the Century to an 

 American fish. It is a form of the word that can 

 claim to have been employed by authorities not want- 

 ing in respectability in addition to the leading diction- 

 aries already quoted from. It appears at page 445 

 of Dr. Goode's American Fishes, and in the scien- 

 tific paper upon the " Fishes of Ontario," by Dr. 

 Kamsay Wright, F.K.S.C., published in 1892 with 

 the report of the Ontario Fish and Game Commis- 

 sion. Like the greater number of the score or more 

 of different spellings of the fish's name that I have 

 collected, "winninish" is a poor attempt to anglicize 

 the original, and to represent phonetically its Indian 

 pronunciation by means of English orthography. 



Some of the French residents about Lake St. John 

 pronounce the word as if its first syllable were " ouin" 



