48 PHILOLOGT OF THE OUANANICHE 



containing the record of a fishing experience there in 

 July, 1891, by Messrs. E. J. Myers and A. W. Koehler, 

 of iiew York, though in justice to Mr. Myers it must 

 be said that he invariably uses " ouananiche " in his 

 interesting contributions to the literature of the fish 

 and of the sport that it affords. " Winanishe" is the 

 orthography employed by one of the earliest students 

 and closest observers of the fish — Mr. J. G. A. 

 Creighton — throughout his article in Scrihner's Mag- 

 azine for May, 1889, while " wananishe," the form 

 already quoted from Hallock in Shields's Ainericcm 

 Game Fishes, is that which Mr. Creighton adopts, not 

 only in the title of his monograph in the same vol- 

 ume, but generally throughout that carefully pre- 

 pared paper. In Outing for August, 1890, Mr. George 

 E. Mosle writes " wininish," and the spelling " win- 

 nouiche"is that adopted in Lo veil's -(raze^foer of Brit- 

 ish North America. Mr. James McKenzie, of the old 

 Northwest Company, visited " The King's Posts " of 

 the Saguenay and the Labrador coast in 1808, and in 

 the journey of his canoe jaunt, which has been printed 

 by the Hon. L. E. Masson, he speaks of a fish resem- 

 bling salmon, a foot and a half long, found in Lake 

 St. John, "though not in great numbers," and " called 

 by the Indians winanis." Mr. C. H. Farnham, in the 

 course of his admirable story of the Canadian voya- 

 geurs on the Saguenay, printed in Harper's Magazine 

 for March, 1888, employs the name " wannoniche." 

 The Marquis of Lome, whose literary work is usually 

 more popular than scientific, has iqvented the name 

 " ouaniche," which appears at page 88 of his Canadian 

 Pictures, published by the Keligious Tract Society. 



