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therefore introduce it among the fishes of the Ohio 

 with some doubt. It has the same eyes and colours 

 as the foregoing. Length thirteen inches. Good 

 food. See Mr. Lesueur's minute description. 



XIV Genus. Trout. Salmo. Truite. 



Body somewhat cylindrical scaly, vent posterior. 

 Gill cover double, scaleless, more than four rays at 

 the branchial membrane. Mouth large, jaws with 

 strong teeth. Two dorsal fins, the first anterior or 

 opposed to the abdominal fins which have a scaly 

 appendage, the second adipose and opposed to the 

 anal fin. 



This Linnean genus which includes the Trouts and 

 Salmono is confined to the head waters and brooks of 

 the Ohio. I only know two species as yet; but there 

 may be more in the small streams of Ohio, the Cum- 

 berland and Clinch mountains, &c. The white fish 

 of Lake Erie, Coregonus albus of Lesueur, (or Salmo 

 clupeformis of Dr. Mitchell,) a fish which differs from 

 the Trouts by being toothless, and is therefore a real 

 Coregouus, is said to be found in some streams of Indi- 

 ana, at the head of the Wabash and Miami; but I 

 have no certain proof of it. Other Trouts have been 

 seen in the Osage river and other streams putting 

 into the Missouri and Mississippi. 



34th Species. Alleghany Trout. Salmo Alle- 

 ganiensis. Truite alleganienne. 



Back brownish, sides pale with crowded round ful- 

 vous spots, and some scattered scarlet dots above and 

 beneath the lateral line, which is nearly straight: 

 lower jaw hardly longer, tail reddish nearly lunu- 

 late, dorsal fin quadrangular with brown stripes, 

 [II. 177] [^5] and ten rays: anal fin lanceolate whitish, 



