NORTHERN INLAND flSHES. 305 



a local race of the much named lake trout, whose distinctive ap- 

 pellation is Cristivomer namaycush. The real distinctions between 

 the several kinds of lake trout are given in Jordan's " Vertebrates,'' 

 pp. 359, etc., and more fully in a paper on the fishes of the Clacka- 

 mas River, in Proc. U. S. N. Museum. The Cristivomer is light to 

 dark brown on back and head ; sides dark grey above lateral Una, 

 and light salmon below ; pectoral and ventrals grey. The whole 

 fish, including fins, is thickly sprinkled with small circular spots of 

 a drab color on sides, olive on back approaching to light salmon 

 below. They are caught in great abundance with the hook in 

 winter, through the ice, and are highly esteemed for the table. It 

 is hardly worth while in this work, to educe arguments to convince 

 the skeptical ; our readers will not care much whether there is one 

 species or a dozen, if so be that they only bite well. 



Landlocked Salmon; wininnish, or ouininnish ; Seba^o Trout. — Salmo sehago i 

 the young fish ^/oz/^rz. — Girard. Salmosalar-,'V3X. sebago, — GiU and Jordan. 



Much needless speculation has been indulged in during the 

 past twenty years, and much discussion excited, as to whether this 

 fish was a true salmon, which having been to the sea, preferred 

 not to go there ; or that, being a true salmon, and debarred from 

 the sea, he chose like a sensible fellow to content himself in fresh 

 water; or that by some mischances, he had become "degene7 

 rate " in size, beauty, and succulency, and unworthy of his regal 

 progenitors ; or whether he was not, after all, truly a variety of 

 lake trout. So much speculation, we repeat, has been indulged in, 

 that it would be a waste of our space to review the pros and com 

 of the argunient, suffice to say that all modern scientific author- 

 ities accepted as reliable pronounce it identical with the sea 

 salmon, and exhibiting no radical differences, except in the one 

 peculiarity that it does not go to salt water. The bony structure 

 and its fin system are precisely the same as those of Salmo 

 salar. Therefore we are at liberty to call it a salmon. 



And yet, if we examine its fin system and compare it with that 

 of the togue, ^ve find that the two formulae vary but slightly : 

 \vhich see : 



Landlocked salmon.— Br. 12; P. 15; V. 9; A. 10; D. 12; C 

 19. Togue Br. 12; P. 12 13; V. 9; A. n-12 ; D. 13; C. 19. 



