TUIS SALMON FAMILY. 



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THE LESSER LAKE TROUT. 



Salmo Adirondakus : Nobis. 



This, the Lake Trout of Hamilton and Franklin counties, 

 in the state of New York, is found in all the small lakes 

 •stretching along at intervals west of the Adirondack Moun- 

 tains. It differs much in its proportions from the engraving 

 of Salmo confinis, found in De Kay's book, and reproduced 

 by Frank Forester; the latter looks more like the huge 

 misshapen Brook Trout, sometimee taken when trolling in 

 those waters, than any fish found in Lakes Pleasant, Piseco, 

 Indian or Long Lake, or in Tuppers or the Saranac Lakes, 

 farther north : still I have no doubt, from what I have heard, 

 that there are other species, or at least varieties of Lake Trout 

 found in those regions, and that De Kay's representation may 

 resemble an overgrown specimen of one of them. 



This fish, in form, is oblong; head one-fourth its length ; 

 upper jaw slightly longer ; no scales on opercles ; eye one- 

 , third distant from snout. Color : back, bluish green ; sides, 

 silvery gray ; belly, white ; lateral line straight ; the body is 

 mottled rather than spotted ; branchial rays 12 ; dorsal I'lO ; 

 pectorals 13 ; venti'al 9 ; anal 2-10 ; caudal (forked) 3-22, 8. 

 There are two rows of teeth on each side of the roof of the 



