340 On the Fishes of the Winnipisseogee. 
Arr. XX XVII.— Descriptions of new species of Fishes ; froma 
“ Synopsis of the Fishes of the Winnipisseogee and tts connect- 
ing waters ;” by Witt1am Prescorr, M.D. of Concord, N. H. 
Read before the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, at the meeting 
held in Boston, in Sept., 1847. 
Te Winnipisseogee and its tributaries, watering as they do a 
large portion of the interior of New Hampshire, embrace nearly 
all the species of fresh-water fishes existing in the state. 
They consist of twenty-two species ranging through twelve 
genera, eight families and four orders, and all belong to that ex- 
tensive and numerous group denominated bony fishes. 
Among these are the following new species. 
. Saumo symmetrica. Winnipisseogee Trout.—There are 
many points of resemblance between this trout and the Salmo 
econd, with regard to the number and arrangement of the 
teeth. According to DeKay the lake trout “has numerous 
eurved teeth in the jaws with series of large teeth along the cen- 
tral furrow of the tongue and many series of acute teeth on the 
vomer and palatines.” But the Winnipisseogee trout has no 
teeth in the central furrow of the tongue and but a single row on 
each of the other parts, and also on the pharyngeals. 
Again, DeKay remarks that the first dorsal fin in his specimen, 
measuring thirty-one inches, commenced one inch nearer the 
nose than the extremity of the caudal rays.” In the Winnipis- 
seogee:trout of twenty inches in length it was ¢wo inches nearer 
_ the anterior extremity. 
In February, 1846, previous to my having seen DeKay’s re- 
‘port on the fishes of New York, a friend sent me a specimen of 
_ the Winnipisseogee trout, from which, at the time, I drew up the 
- following description. ight of specimen thirty ounces ; length 
twenty inches; length of head four and a half inches. Body 
slender, subcylindrical. General appearance symmetrical. Scales 
very small. Laterul line waving the first inch, commencing 4 
little below the superior posterior angle of the operculum and 
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