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b.—Dec. 7th.—Male trout, taken at night in Shag River with natural 
minnow, water very low; colour silvery white, back light olive, spots black 
and numerous; condition very fat; head ordinary size, lower jaw hooked, 
maxillary projecting 4 in. behind posterior margin of orbit; body of vomer, 
5 teeth firm, 2 awanting ; palatine left, 13 firm, 3 gone; right palatine, 10 
firm, 4 gone. 
Dimensions: Weight, 5 Ibs. 2 oz.; length, 23 in.; depth, 54 in.; girth, 
18iin.; head, 53 in. 
Fin Rays: P.18 on each. Scales: 15 on one side, 16 on other, in 
transverse rows from dead fin backwards to lateral line. Pyl. ceca: 48. 
Contents of stomach: remains of one or two small minnows. 
c.—Dec. 19th.—Male trout, taken in Shag River at night with natural 
minnow; water low; colour, silvery sides, back, light olive; spots black 
and numerous, some on upper margin of tail, lower margin gone, probably 
bitten off by a shag; condition fat; head ordinary size, lower jaw hooked, 
maxillary projecting } in. behind the posterior margin of orbit; head of 
vomer, 8 teeth; palatine a row each. Dimensions: Weight, 5 lbs. 5 oz.; 
length, 231 in.; depth, 6 in. ; girth, 18} in.; head, 6 in. 
Fin Rays: D.18, P.43 one sido, o V-9, A.12, 0.22. Scales: 14 in trans- 
verse row from Aa ^g Kida to lateral line. Pyl. ceca: (not 
taken). Contents of stomach: part of one small minnow. 
d.—1878, Jan. 19th.—Female trout taken with grasshopper in Lee 
Stream in the Ledge pool; colour, back brown, sides olive colour, belly 
white, black spots plentiful, red ones very large; tail slightly forked; head 
smalJ, maxillary within vertical from posterior margin of orbit; head of 
vomer, 2 teeth and 2 gone; body of vomer, double row ; palatines, one row 
of teeth on each. 
Dimensions : Weight, 2 lbs.; length, 16in.; depth, 81 in. ; girth, 8} in.; 
head, 84 in. 
Fin Rays: D.18, P.14, V.9, A.11, C.19. Scales: 15 in transverse row 
from adipose fin backwards to lateral line. Pyl. ceca: 54. Contents of 
stomach: shell-fish and cadis-bait numerous, leg of crayfish, two small 
stones. 
e.—Feb. 8th.—Male trout caught in Deep Stream with grasshopper; 
water low and clear; colour, back brown, sides and belly, golden tinge, 
black spots very numerous and large, red spots large, a few black spots on 
adipose fin and upper margin of tail; head ordinary size, maxillary project- 
ing j in. behind vertical from posterior margin of orbit; head of vomer, 3 
teeth and 1 gone; body of vomer, double row, some missing; palatines, 
1 row on each. 
epee Weight, 84lbs.; length, 19 in. ; depth, 5 in. ; girth, 11} in. ; 
