HABITS OF THE OUANANICHE 15 



portions of the lake. As a matter of choice, there- 

 fore, it had become what is popularly known as a 

 landlocked salmon, differing only in its habits, like 

 the ouananiohe, from the ordinary sea- salmon. Pro- 

 fessor Goode claims that these differences in their life 

 histories seem to justify the claim of the landlocked 

 salmon to be regarded as a variety of Salmo solar. 

 Dr. David T. Jordan makes a similar claim on behalf 

 of the ouananiche, unaware probably that, identical 

 as it is with the sea-salmon, it has not even peculiari- 

 ties of its own to distinguish it from the landlocked 

 salmon of Maine ; for Dr. Jordan has never fished for 

 the ouananiche, has never had the opportunity of 

 studying it in life, and claims to have no idea who 

 the original discoverer of the variety was. The honor 

 belongs to the Jesuit father De Quen, who as long 

 ago as 1647 declared it to be a salmon. The authority 

 for the use of its Indian name, in various phonetic 

 spellings of the Montagnais word, has also come down 

 to us from bygone centuries. The Jesuits in ITorth 

 America are believed to be responsible for the French 

 orthography — "ouananiche." The English form — 

 " winanis " * — is found in old documents of the earliest 

 decade of the present century. The matter of nomen- 

 clature in the present case belonging rather to the 

 literature of the subject than to the science of ichthy- 

 ology, it will readily be conceded that the action of 

 one of the leading ichthyologists of the day in tracing 

 back the authority for the present .use of the Indian 



*For various other forms see the chapter entitled "The Phi- 

 lology of the Ouananiche." 



