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can swallow seems to come amiss. It is often found gorged with 

 small fish.. 



When boiled it is an excellent dish, though lacking in high fla- 

 vor. The points of difference between it and varieties to be named 

 subsequently, are such that best authorities are divided in opinion 

 as to whether there is one or several species. As regards Lake 

 Memphremagog and the Brompton Lakes, the problem in itself is 

 sufficiently puzzling. Here the grey trout are locally known as 

 " lunge," having been adopted from the St. Francis Indians who 

 formerly hunted and fished around these lakes. But there is not 

 only one variety of lunge, but several, and these are known as the 

 black lunge, the silver lunge and the racer lunge, all of which we have 

 seen, and are able to vouch for their striking points of difference in 

 color and habits. Mr. N. P. Leach, of Montreal, who is familiar 

 with Canadian waters, wrote us May 9th, 1876, the following note 

 in reply to ours asking him for specific information on this in- 

 teresting subject : 



" I received to-day a couple of lunge from Mr. Hubbard, of the 

 Parks House, Magog. They were caught in the lake near his 

 hotel. One was a fine specimen of the dark copper or black lunge, 

 the other was a small, five-pound silver lunge. The black lunge 

 corresponds to the minutest particular with De Kay's Salmo con- 

 finis, and the silver lunge answers well to the description of the 

 Salmo naymachus by Richardson. It might be taken for the Sal- 

 mo adirondakus nobis, of Norris' " American Angler's Book," but 

 that the Salmo adirondakus, if described accurately in Norris' book, 

 has no teeth on the vomer, while the specimen before me has quite 

 a number of teeth there. In regard to classifying the different 

 species or varieties of SalmonidcE that are found in the eastern 

 township waters, I know of no one that has' done this, and feel 

 very difiRdent about attempting it myself, though I will endeavor 

 to get specimens from the various waters there, and with the as- 

 sistance of Mr. J. Whiteaves of the Natural History Society here, I 

 will prepare an article for you." 



We regret to say that we have waited in vain for the light 

 which we anticipated Mr. Whiteaves would shed, and our readers 

 are by so much the losers. We can add nothing more to the above. 

 In addition to these apparent varieties, there is still another in 



