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a very fleeting lavender wash on dorsal. Sides yellowish. 

 In one adult specimen I noticed a few red spots on sides, 

 but in the young fish they are very marked and beauti- 

 ful. Some seen by myself in July had vertical bars, 

 red spots, very silvery on sides, and all, even the 

 smallest, had the typical opercular spots very distinct. 

 They were exceedingly beautiful and might have readily 

 been taken for a different species. On opening the fish 

 from gills to tail, the heart with its single auricle and 

 ventricle first presented, the liver overlapping the 

 stomach and pale yellow ; the stomach descended about 

 one-half the length of the fish, was then reflected sud- 

 denly upon itself where it was covered by numerous 

 cwca (about thirty) ; these are the pyloric cceca of 

 authors. It then turned down again, and soon was lost 

 in small intestine ending at the vent. The spawn were 

 each of the size of currants and bright scarlet, about a 

 thousand in number, and encased in a very thin bilo- 

 bular ovary, the left lobe occupying the left side, being 

 a little over three inches, and only one half the length 

 of right lobe occupying right side ; a second fish gave the 

 same placing of ovary. Both these fish were taken on 

 the 2nd and 4th November at Grand Lake, Halifax, and 

 evidently near spawning. Fins, D. 12 or 13, P. 14, V. 9, 

 A. 9, C. 20. AxiUary scale small. The first dorsal ray 

 in some instances contains two, in other tliree small rays. 

 Typical marks, spots on opercles." 



In its general a^^pearance, markings, and delicate 

 primrose tint on the belly, the fish is not unlike the 

 trout of gravelly streams in England. 



In former years, before the construction of the Shube- 

 nacadie Canal, it was found in that river during the 



