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There is some little uncertainty as fo the exact water 

 from which this fish was taken, owiag to confusion of 

 nomenclature, but Judge Panet Angers, Q. C, who ob- 

 tained from a habitant guide the specimen that he 

 gave me, has frequently taken the same fish in Lac 

 des lies ; and as this territory becomes better known, 

 much more will doubtless be learned as to the geo- 

 graphical distribution of the fish. Large numbers of 

 a very similar fish, so like it in external appearance 

 that it never occurred to me to doubt that they might 

 in fact be the true Marstonii trout, have recently been 

 discovered in some of the Eimouski series of lakes 

 upon the south shore of the St. Lawrence, and Mr. 

 John Jordan, of Quebec, was kind enough to procure 

 me specimens through Mr. Hurley. 



I cannot better describe these beautiful creatures 

 than by borrowing, with a few verbal changes, the 

 words employed in November, 1895, in writing of them, 

 with the fish lying before me, for Forest and Stream : 



" It was recently my privilege to fenst my eyes upon a number of 

 specimens of this newest and most beautiful of Canadian chars, 

 which were taken (by special permit, for scientific purposes) from 

 one of a series of lakes in Eimouski County locally known as Lac S, 

 Cassette. I call the Marston trout advisedly a char, recalling the 

 fact that the word ' char ' comes from the Gaelic ceara (blood) and the 

 Irish eear (red or blood-colored), which are almost synonymous with 

 the more western torgoch (red bellied). And (jertainly the new trout 

 is the most brilliantly blood-colored of any non-tropical fish that I 

 am acquainted with. In the words of Professor S. Garman, who 

 fli-st identified Salvelinus Marstonii as a variety new to science, who 

 asked Mr. A. N. Cheney to name it, and who examined last year a 

 single specimen that I was able to procure for him from a lake be- 

 tween Quebec and Lake St. John : ' Some artist with his pencil 

 will delight everybody interested in the fishes if he will give the 



