3o8 GAME FISH OF NORTH A Af ERICA. 



Mlmo gltrueri is quite 'common in most of the rivers about the Bay 

 of Fundy, as well as along the State of Maine, and when taken 

 have been called the young of the sea salmon. Unless you have 

 DOth to compare, it is' not easy to tell the difference. They have 

 been examined as to all their measurements so scientifically, their 

 markings, etc., which I have no doubt you have seen, that it is not 

 hard to tell the S.glcroeri from the true salmon. The number of 

 vertebrae differ — fifty-nine in the salmon to fifty-seven in S.glaverz, 

 a double row of small teeth in the vomer of the young salmon, a 

 single row in the smolt of the. glaverz. Some of our English fish- 

 ermen thought our fish the same as the European 5. trutta and 

 S. cambricas. Some specimens were sent to Dr. Guenther, F. R. S., 

 of England, who pronounced them different, and nothing to do 

 with the sea salmon. I do not understand how they ever got the 

 name landlocked salmon, as they always had access to the sea, 

 and in my boy days S.glcnieri was common to the tide waters, and 

 more often taken as far down as there were fish weirs. They 

 have been identified in several of our Maine rivers, also in Loch 

 Lomond and Mespeck, X. B., in Nova Scotia, in St. John's Lake, 

 Grand Lake, Salmon River, and Pockwock Lake, and I have no 

 doubt it will be found in many of the rivers of clear water coming 

 into the St. Lawrence, and when caught are called young salmon. 

 I have seen specimens of S. gUrueri caught on our rivers that 

 weighed ten to twelve pounds. The large fish seldom take fly or 

 bait, but keep in the deep water. 



Geo. a. Boardman. 



Grayi-ing; Spearing. — ThynuiUus oniariensis. — Cut. and Val. 

 Specimens of this fish have been taken from waters adjacent 

 to Lake Ontario ; in a stream near Quebec, where it has the local 

 name of " spearing ; " in Vermont, near the Derby line ; and in a 

 stream at the head-waters of the Penobscot River in Maine. Tha 

 identity of this fish, which some have doubted, can be readily au- 

 thenticated. Its habits are the same as those of the Western 

 grayling elsewhere described. [See page 334.] 



Whitefish ; Gizzard fish ; Shad. — Cortgonus labradcricus. — Richardson. 



This fish is taken in the St. Lawrence River, and much re- 

 sembles the C. alhts. The two species are widely distributed 

 throughout Canada and the Northern States, varying considerably 

 in size and shape in different waters, and differing in quality of 

 their flesh. They are found in Lakes Ontario, Erie and Champlain, 

 in the Adirondack lakes and the interior lakes of New York ; in- 



