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CHAPTER X. 



The Brook Trout of North America, and its Varieties — Trout Fishing, 

 and Game Qualities of the Brook Trout— Lake Trouts of Boreal 

 America — The Mackinau Salmon or Namaycush, or Great Trout of 

 the Lakes — The Siscowet — The Togue — Distribution, Haunts, and 

 Distinctions of the Species— Lake Trout Fishing— Smelt of North 

 America — Capelin — White Fishes — Shads — Cusk — Alewive — Striped 

 Bass Fishing— Perches and Lake Bass— Sturgeon Fisheries— Lam- 

 prey — Cat Fish — Eels — American Hake — Marine Fishes. 



npHE Brook Trout of North America is what naturalists 

 •*- call a good species ; nevertheless it is being constantly- 

 confounded on the Atlantic seaboard of Canada with the sea 

 trout, with which it is frequently found ; but the shortness of the 

 intermaxillaries (page 230, h), and the length and narrowness of 

 the labials (g) are very characteristic. Indeed this ready method 

 of characterizing the fish is worthy of the especial attention of 

 persons in the way of procuring these salmonoids, inasmuch 

 as Europeans are constantly confounding the one with the 

 other during the migratory seasons, when each is on its way 

 from or to the ocean. 



The brook trout is further distinguishable in the following 

 particulars : the labial (g) is four times larger than the inter- 

 maxillary, extending for some distance behind the orbit ; its 

 crest (t) is thin and sharp on its upper edge, and differs conse- 

 quently from the sea trouts of both Europe and America, as 

 well as the brook trout of the former, which has a much 

 broader crest and labial. Again, the distance from the tip of 

 the snout to the extremity of the labial equals the length of 



