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foniinalis, an examination discovers their form and markings to 

 be entirely different. Their backs are hke dark blue velvet pile ; 

 sides liberally sprinkled with vermilion spots from g^ls to caudal 

 fin. There is no silvery halo around the spots, as .n the familiar 

 brook trout, and the shoulders are very narrow. The flesh has ? 

 yellowish tinge, and is of not as fine flavor as that of the common 

 trout. The best accepted authorities declare them to be a distinct 

 species. They never take a fly, and very seldom a bait. Prof. 

 Milner describes their specific characteristics as follows : 



" The type of form in S. oquassa is much more slender, with a 

 tendency in its different parts to prolongation not seen in brook 

 trout. Thus the length of. the fish, compared with the thickness, 

 with the length of the head, the thickness of the head to the length, 

 the pectoral fin prolonged to a slender point, the two lobes of the 

 caudal extended in the same way, showing a decided fiircation, and 

 the opercular bones prolonged into a more acute angle. 



" On the contrary, the maxillary bone extends much less far back 

 of the position of the eye, or toward the hinder end or hinge of the 

 lower jaw in the Oquossac trout. 



" The interopercular bone is much larger in S. oquassa and the 

 suboperculum is wider. 



•• The tail in Salmo fontinalis is more truncated than in any 

 species it is likely to be confounded with. The drawings show a 

 comparison of the caudal fin when spread and when partially 

 closed. I think the most of these characters will be found 

 constant." 



ToGUE ; gray trout ; tuladi ; lunge.— i'lrfow /«7!a.— Hamlin. 



The togue abounds in the great lakes at the sources of the St, 

 Croix and St. John Rivers, deriving one of its local names from the 

 Tuladi Lake and river, where it is extremely plentiful. It is found 

 in all the larger lakes of New Bruns^vick and in very many of 

 those in Maine and exceptionally few of those in Nova Scotia. It 

 inhabits abundantly the Eagle lakes, at the head of Fish River, 

 the St. Francis lakes, from which flows the river of that name, 

 the Matapediac Lake at the head of that river. Lake Temiscouata, 

 Lakes Memphremagog and Brompton, where it is known as the 

 ■' lunge," the Grand lakes, and Cheputneticook lakes of the St, 



