88 GILPIN ON THE TROUT AND SALMON, 



They were exceedingly beautiful and might have readily been taken for a dif- 

 ferent 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 suddenly upon itself where it was covered by numerous cceca (about 

 thirty), these are the pi/Io7-ic 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 bilobular ovary, the left lobe occupying the left side, 

 being a little over three inches, and only one-half the length of right lobe oc- 

 cupying 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. 

 Axillary scale small. The first dorsal ray in some instances contains two in 

 others three small rays. Typical marks, spots on opercles. 



The Loch Lomond trout near St. John, N. B. are identical with 

 these fish ; I saw some at Stubb's Hotel, taken by H. Gilbert, 

 Esq.; Perley confounds them with S. Ferox. With the exception 

 of Girarcl I believe this species has not been noticed by naturalists 

 or sportsmen, yet it is worthy of notice from both, by one for its 

 game qualities, and by the other for its most resembling the European 

 trout, in its teeth down the vomer and brown colouring and spots 



Sahno Covfinis — Dekay. Saltno Adirondicus — jSTorris. 



For some years reports have been made of a large black fish 

 seen in our interior lakes, principally from Chester. They were 

 generally considered spent salmon. One gentleman about twenty 

 years ago, built a boat, and camped for some time on the lakes, but 

 was not successful. About two years ago Col. Sinclair sent tAvo 

 specimens to J. M. Jones, Esq., who identified them as the lesser 

 lake trout, the Salmo Covjinis of Dekay, common to most of the 

 small lakes of the Northern States. Subsequently Col. Chearnley 

 sent some to town taken by the Indians. From these and other 

 specimens taken from great Pock Wock lake near Halifax, the fol- 

 lowing description is taken. The first, of one weighing about three 

 pounds, and evidently a young fish. 



Length eighteen and a half inches. Length of head one fourth of lengtli 

 to insertion of tail. In some others the head was rather longer. Insertion of 

 first dorsal two lengths of head from tip of nose. The outline commencing 

 from a round obtuse snout, rose almost immediately and suddenly, owing to the 

 large orbit of a very large eye placed very high in the head, and ran gently 

 upward to insertion of dorsal, then straight to adipose fin, then rather suildenly 

 depressed to insertion of a very strong and deeply curved rather than forked 

 tail. The outline of belly much more convex than that of back. The greatest 



