SECTION II. 



OTHER TROUTS AND THE SALMONS. 



America is rich in species of Salmonida. We have 

 the Salmo salar, with its variety Sehago, which is the 

 only salmon of our east coast, and is identical with the 

 salmon of the west coast of Europe. Excluding the 

 whitefish and its relatives, we have of salmons chars 

 and trouts — and we call all our chars "trout," the fol- 

 lowing salmons, 5". salar, on the east coast. On the 

 Pacific coast .we have Oncorhynchus chouicha, the quin- 

 nat or chinook ; >S". gairdneri, the steel-head or salmon 

 trout; 0. nerka, the redfish, blueback or sockeye; O. 

 keta, the dog salmon, and 0. kisutch, the silver salmon. 



Of chars we have Salvelinus fontinalis, the eastern 

 brook trout ; ^. aureolus, the sunapee or golden trout of 

 Nq,w Hampshire; S. namaycush, the lake trout east of 

 the Missouri River; 5". oquassa, the blueback trout of 

 Maine, and 5". malma, the dolly varden, bull trout and 

 western ,char, of the Columbia river basin and other 

 waters of the west. 



Of true trouts we have Salmo irideus, the rainbow 

 trout ; S. fario, the brown trout imported from Europe,^ 

 and 5". mykiss, the "cut-throat" trout of the west — four' 

 teen species, and all of them of value, more or less, ex- 

 cept the dog salmon, which is eaten only by Indians. 



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