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on the gill-covers like the salmon. The mouth is furnished 
with teeth on the palate, tongue, vomerine, palatine, and max- 
illary, like those of the brook trout, or as are nearly all the 
young of the Sadnonide ; but its head is longer than that 
of the common trout, and much larger in proportiou than the 
salmon’s. Its scales are small, and the body is entirely white 
below the lateral line, and very light gray above it, all shin- 
ing with metallic lustre. It is better game than any other 
lake family of the genus Salmo, and will readily take the fly 
on the surface of the water. With a two-handed trout-rod, 
fifteen feet long, a person unskilled in fly-fishing has taken 
over a hundred in three hours of these transcendent beautics, 
Tue Wuire Trour.—Sualmo albus. 
Some persons have supposed this blonde beauty “a land- 
locked salmon,” than which nothing can be much more ab- 
surd, for it has the common egress of a commodious river 
which debouches in Passamaquoddy Bay, while those of the 
lakes in the provinces have equally favorable avenues of es- 
cape. No, it is a comparatively new luxury to the American 
angler, and well worthy his attention. 
Though many anglers use a two-handed fly-rod for taking 
the white trout, yet it is more artistic to use a halfpound fly- 
rod and single fly; the cinnamon, Montreal with claret body 
and brown mallard wing, with the yellow and blue profes- 
sors, are all the flies needed for any weather, though the 
coachman of white wing and peacock’s herl body is a good 
sunset fly, and the red ibis wing with silver body sometimes 
takes very well. 
The late Rev. Dr. Bethune regarded this fish and its sport- 
ive ways with cuthusiasm, and the borders of Schoodic lakes 
