The Silvery Salmon Trout. 2 1 3 



indeed, in July and August it is frequently impossible to "get 

 a rise," although hundreds may be seen lying at the bottom 

 of the lumber dam basin. The flesh is of a rich salmon- 

 colour in spring, getting paler as the summer advances. The 

 flavour, although not equal to that of the salmon, and wanting 

 the delicious relish of the brook trout, is vastly superior to 

 that of the togue, or any of the lake trouts. 



I now come to the descriptive details of this beautiful and 

 little-known salmonoid, which, the reader will observe, formed 

 the main object of my excursion to these lakes. Although long 

 familiar to the natives and whites under various appellations, 

 it did not receive attention from scientific observers until 1855* 



In comparing data of the various waters in which it has 



THE SILVERY SALMON TROUT (SALMO GLOVERl). 



been hitherto recognized, I feel that, irrespective of re- 

 cords, I should have been unable to fix its geographical distri- 

 bution without the assistance of several observant fishermen 

 friends, who chose to interest themselves in the natural history 



* Girard was the first to describe this trout under the name of S. 

 Sebago, calling it doubtfully a salmon trout. {Acad. Nat. Sciences, 

 Penn., 1853.) And subsequently, unaware that he was characterizing the 

 same fish, names it a new salmon trout, S. Gloveri, from Union River in 

 the state of Maine. {Proc. Phil. Ac. of Arts and Sciences), 1855, p. 55.) 

 I learn from Mr. Boardman that it has been exterminated in the Sebago 

 Lake. We find Dr. Gilpin {Nova Scotia Institute of Nat. Sciences, 

 April, 1866, p. 86), recognizing the S. Gloveri in the lakes of that province, 

 and Loch Lomond in New Brunswick. He states, moreover, that it is 

 named the " gray ling " about Halifax. 



