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that rivalled the magnificent fish of Windermere. The 
trout (farzo) seems the fitter to survive. 
While the discussion just outlined was progressing, charr 
identical with the Sunapee Lake form were sent from Dan 
Hole Pond, Carroll Co., N. H., and from Flood’s Pond, in 
the town of Otis, 16 miles from Ellsworth, Maine, to Prof. 
Garman and Dr. Bean. The water of both these lakes is 
deep, clear and cold, as in the case of Sunapee. Dan Hole 
Pond, at the headwaters of the Ossipee River, is tributary 
to the Saco. Flood’s Pond connects with the Union River, 
which enters Blue Hill Bay near Mt. Desert. Thus the 
new Salvelinus is represented in three distinct drainage 
basins in New England. 
In company with Col. Hodge I visited Dan Hole Pond in 
the summer of 1889, but failed to secure a specimen of the 
saibling. In the fall of 1890, however, several specimens 
were sent from the pond to Cambridge and to Washing- 
ton, where they were pronounced identical with the Suna- 
pee form. Old residents declared them identical also with 
trout which had for fifty years been speared on the same 
spawning bed. The present representative from Ossipee 
informs me, through Commissioner Hodge, that he has 
seen many individuals of this species weighing 10 and 12 
pounds—all this years before a German saibling egg was 
imported. 
I am indebted to Dr. Walter M. Haines, of Ellsworth, 
Maine, for the following facts regarding Flood’s Pond: 
The pond is three miles long and # mile wide. It is sur- 
rounded by high, well-wooded land, and is 100 feet deep, 
the bottom being pure white sand or gravel. There are the 
usual inlets and spring-holes. The outlet is a stream of 
considerable size, and has been dammed in many places 
for the last forty years. The Flood’s Pond saibling, de- 
clared by Prof. Garman to correspond exactly with the 
Sunapee fish, is known in the neighborhood as the ‘“ sil- 
ver,” or ‘‘white trout,’ to distinguish it from ‘‘ the square- 
