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Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Haggard, D.S.O., who 

 in company with his brother Rider has fished most of 

 the Scotch salmon and sea-trout waters, and many of 

 those of Norway, was struck with the resemblance of 

 the ouananiche of the Grand Decharge to the Scotch 

 sea-trout. I recalled his conversation on this point 

 the other day when I read, in a letter from Dr. J. D. 

 Quackenbos to Mr. Cheney, which the latter printed 

 in Forest and Stream, the following description of the 

 Loch Leven trout (Fario levenensis), which the pro- 

 fessor has transplanted into some of his own waters : 



" So like are the young and adult Loch Levens to our landlocked 

 salmon that many anglers believe a Loch Leven trout is often fast 

 when the exciting cry of ' Salmon ! salmon !' from the fishing fleet 

 greets the first frenzied leap of a supposed ouananiche pierced by 

 the lucky steel. One Scottish authority unhesitatingly declares the 

 Loch Leven trout to be a landlocked salmon dwarfed to its present 

 proportions in its shallow miniature ocean. But I believe it to be 

 a landlocked sea- trout. With its purplish-silver back and silvery 

 sides starred with X and XX spots, it so closely resembles the well- 

 known migratory Salmo trutta that foreign experts commonly fail 

 to distinguish between the two fish. The fin-ray formula is iden- 

 tical in each. Moreover, sea-trout that have been confined in fresh 

 water are absolutely indistinguishable from the true Fario levenen- 

 sis." 



Ouananiche ? Or what ? And who that has met 

 and fought the ouananiche of Canadian waters will 

 not identify a near relative of the fish in the follow- 

 ing description by Dr. Quackenbos of the sport afford- 

 ed by the fishing in Loch Leven : 



" There is as much difference between the killing of one of these 

 sublime fish and the suffocating of an ordinary brown trout as there 

 is between the conquest of our ouananiche and the potting of a 

 sucker. In full view of the castled isle of Mary Stuart, one casts 



