373 OTHEE FISH AND GAME 



public a few ideas of the splendid colors, drawn from life, of the 

 male of Marslon's namesake.' The Rimouski "specimens that I was 

 recently privileged to see lack none of the radiant beauty and brill- 

 iancy of coloring of the fish that I sent to Professor Garman at the 

 Museum of Comparative ZoSlogy at Cambridge, Mass. In fact, 

 perhaps because it is nearer their spawning-season, the Rimouski 

 fish that were shown me early this month more nearly approached 

 in the coloring of their flesh that of the red snapper than did that 

 of any specimens that I had previously seen. Held before a bright 

 light, the thinner portions of the fish adioiiiing the ventral, anal, 

 and caudal fins are of deepest salmon. Its unvermiculated, dark- 

 brown back with its bluish tinge shades into russet and green on 

 the sides, deepening as it descends with a aoupgon of crimson, 

 which latter color increases in intensity and depth until it be- 

 comes upon the belly a brilliant red, in some specimens more scar- 

 let than crimson, while among the varied colo'red spots of this be- 

 witchingly beautiful leopard of Northern water are some of deepest 

 orange with a crimson centre. The colors ^fade somewhat after 

 death, but even after shipment of the fish to Quebec, a distance of 

 nearly two hundred miles, are beautiful beyond compare. 



' ' I am told by those who have fished In the south shore lakes 

 where Mr. Marston's namesake is found that it is held in no great 

 esteem by the residents of the vicinity who act as guides upon 

 these waters. With them fish is only food, and food is chiefly fish. 

 Quantity is more than quality, and with such enormous specimens 

 of thick, deep fontinalis as there abound, they regard with some- 

 thing like contempt the rapid rush towards the surface lure of 

 what they call the dore of those lakes. This name applied to these 

 trout can only be accounted for by the golden yellow of a portion 

 of its sides. The fish is of course no more like the true dore of 

 Canadian waters {Stizostedion mtreum) — the pickerel of Upper Can- 

 ada and elsewhere, and pike-perch or wall-eyed pike of different 

 parts of the United States — than the latter resembles the John 

 Dory of South British and Mediterranean seas — the much -prized 

 Zeusfaber of the ancients. The only points of outward similarity 

 between these last two are the hard, bony spines of the first dorsal 

 and the outer coloring, including sometimes the dark spot on the 

 shoulders, supposed to correspond with the finger-mark of St. Peter, 

 which has caused the ' John ' to share with the Jiaddock the honored 



