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The opinion of Prof. Jordan and Mr. Creighton regard- 
ing the survival of Arctic charr in southern Canada and 
northeastern United States have received confirmation re- 
cently by the discovery, in a lake of Huntertown, Province 
of Quebec, of a symmetrical, unmottled, unspotted charr, 
with markedly forked tail, small fins, diminutive mouth, 
weak dentition, large liquid eye, pink flush and brilliant 
iridescence below the median line. I can say of the speci- 
men examined by me that it was neither a blue-back nor 
a Sunapee saibling. 
Prof. Garman writes me under date of November 17, 
1892, that ‘‘no good evidence has been advanced of the ex- 
istence of this species on this continent previous to 1884.”’ 
It is a matter of record, however, that 60,000 German saib- 
ling eggs, the gift of the Deutsche Fischerei Verein, were 
sent to New Hampshire in January, 1881. It is further to 
be taken into consideration that the ‘writer of this paper 
had in his possession, at Sunapee Lake, in the summer of 
1882, a four-pound specimen of the saibling in question— 
which could not have developed from fry hatched the pre- 
ceding year! No saibling have ever been sent to Maine by 
the United States Fish Commission; and, as has been 
shown, it is impossible that the fish in Flood’s Pond can 
be descendants of the New Hampshire charr. The theory 
that there was nothing to prevent the Salvelinus alpinus 
of Sunapee Lake in recent years from descending the Con- 
necticut River to Long Island Sound, and thence making 
its way into streams and connecting lakes from the shores 
of Connecticut to those of Greenland, may be disposed of 
in a single word— Dams. 
The Sunapee charr is undoubtedly a representative of 
the European form; but reasons have been given why it is 
believed to be a native of this continent. It differs no 
more extensively from the several European varieties than 
they do among themselves. Von dem Borne, Profs. 
Benecke and Dalmer, Wittmack, of Berlin—all speak of 
