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myth of having been the fish from whose mouth the tribute-money 

 was taken. No doubt the familiar English name of the acanthop- 

 terygian fish is merely a corruption, as vulgarly supposed, of the 

 French jaune doree, applied because of its golden-yellow color. The 

 early French settlers of Canada from the fisliing coasts of Brittany 

 must have been well acquainted with the English John Dory, and 

 as color, next after size, would be the most attractive feature to 

 them of a new fish, it is pretty certain that they gave the Canadian 

 dore its name for no other reason than its resemblance in color to 

 the European fish from which it differs so materially in most 

 other respects. 



" It has been hitherto supposed that the Mai'stonii trout were only 

 bottom feeders, but their discovery in the Rimouski lakes and the 

 method of their capture deal a death blow to the theory that they 

 will not rise to the fly, and place them beyond any question among 

 the first game fishes of the American continent. It is probable that 

 they are not to be taken by fly-flshiog in summer, nor am I aware 

 that until the present season it was known to fly - fishermen that 

 they would rise even in the fall of the year to their gay deceit. This 

 is now established beyond peradventure by members of the club 

 controlling the fishing of these Rimouski lakes. When the Mar- 

 ston trout takes the fly, it does not spring from almost immediately 

 below it, as the brook-trout seems to do, but rushes at it with a 

 rapid dart, often for some distance along the top of the water, like 

 the run of a hooked salmon, leaving a swirl behind it resembling 

 the wash of a small narrow boat. It leaps I'epeatedly out of the 

 water when hooked and makes a desperate fight, its rapid motions 

 being apparently due to its slender shape and graceful form. A 

 pound fish of this variety is nearly a third longer than a brook- 

 trout of the same weight in good condition, but not more than half 

 the circumference. From what I can learn of its methods of fight- 

 ing when impaled upon a fly -hook, it must come nearer to the 

 ouananiohe than any other Canadian fish in the sport that it affords. 

 Like that silvery monarch of rapid waters which it resembles in 

 outer form much more than it does its nearer relative, /orato'mafos, it 

 seems constructed for about the greatest velocity attainable by fish 

 of its size. 



" Scdvelinvs Marsionii spawns later in the season than the Ameri- 

 can brook-trout. Opportunities for observation have not thus far 



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