46 PHILOLOGY OF THE OTTANANICHE 



in the Canadian and provincial government reports, 

 "ouananiohe" it is, and "ouananiche" it will remain. 

 The same is true of much of the best literary work 

 done in recent years by those English-speaking sports- 

 men who have devoted any considerable attention to 

 the fish and to the sport which it affords the angler ; 

 as, for instance, of Baedeker's Handhook to Canada, of 

 the articles in Blackwood'' s Magazine and the J^ield, 

 by Lieut.-Col. Andrew 0. P. Haggard, D.S.O., and of 

 numerous contributors to the columns of periodical 

 angling literature. The editorial writers in both Shoot- 

 ing and Fishing and Forest and. Stream, and in par- 

 ticular that prominent authority upon all that con- 

 cerns fish and fishing — Mr. A. Nelson Cheney, of Glens 

 Falls, State Fish Culturist of New York — invariably 

 employ " ouananiche." The latter mentioned gentle- 

 man has, in fact, declared his intention of applying it 

 to the so-called " landlocks " of both the United States 

 and Canada. It does not appear that there is the 

 slisrhtest structural difference between the Eastern 

 fresh-water salmon of the two countries, and if we are 

 to have one generic name for both that of " ouana- 

 niche " would seem open to no objection. " Land- 

 locked salmon," in the strict literal sense of the term, 

 they are not, and " Sebago salmon " or " Schoodic sal- 

 mon" would be appropriate only to the fish of a 

 restricted habitat, and not at all to the fresh-water 

 salmon of Canada. If scientific accuracy demands in 

 this case the use of a trinominal, I believe that " Salmo 

 solar (ouananiche) " is infinitely preferable to " Salmo 

 salur, variety Sebago.'''' 

 Kit Clarke has adopted the na^me " wininnish," 



