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coloring are very beautiful, particularly in the male, the pectoral fins rivalling in color the au- 
tumn-tinted maple leaves; like the dying dolphin, their brilliancy of color is lost or fades away 
with their lives. They are more delicate and symmetrical in shape than the brook trout and 
have the tail forked.” 
In his letter to Mr. Mather in 1887 {1. c.), Mr. Stanley says: “The adult fish does not hav'e 
any white on the fins at all like the brook trout. The fins of the male are bright red, or the color 
of bright autumn leaves. When taken from the water they are of a dark color, but after death ' 
turn to a light yellowish cast. The spots are very minute, very thick, very bright yellow and ^ 
red. Both thicker and brighter than in the brook trout.” ■! 
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Descriptions of Recent Large Salvelinus oquassa from Rangeley Lakes, Maine. s 
Male. — Head 4 in length without caudal; snout, 3.66; eye, 6.11; upper jaw, 1.98; lower ^ 
jaw, 1.57. Body robust, symmetrical, fusiform, the depth equaling head, 4 in length of body ; 
without caudal; dorsal situated midway between tip of snout and middle base of caudal, rays I 
11, the longest longer than base, 1.77 in head; base 1.68 in head; distance from posterior end of I 
dorsal base to adipose fin about equaling the distance from insertion of adipose to middle base * 
of caudal, 4.4 in length without caudal; distance from tip of snout to base of pectoral 1.20 in 
distance from dorsal to adipose, just 2 in distance from tip of snout to dorsal; pectoral much 
longer than ventral, 1.57 in head, the distance from its base to base of ventral 3.66 in length", 
without caudal; ventral situated under anterior fourth of dorsal, nearer tip of snout than base of 
caudal, the distance from its base to origin of anal less than length of head and 4.15 in length 
without caudal; anal rays 9, the longest about equaling in length one half the distance from 
ventral to anal, slightly less than the length of anal base and slightly greater than the distance 
from anal to caudal, 2.11 in head; distance from posterior end of anal base to lower base of cau- 
dal greater than distance from adipose to caudal, containing the least depth of caudal peduncle 
1.25 times; 49 pyloric coeca. ' 
Coloration. — Above dark bluish, irregularly and finely mottled with darker, the blue fading 
into pale pinkish purple near the middle axis of the body, thence into bright lemon yellow, i 
becoming a very rich deep yellow on lower part of body; spots orange yellow along sides; head 
dark bluish, becoming greenish with metallic reflections and faint spots of lemon and golden 
yellow; dorsal, deep bluish of back becoming greenish and finally yellowish at upper margin; 
adipose, darker shade of color of back; caudal, blue color of back changing through greenish to 
greenish yellow at posterior margin; and with a lower margin of yellow of body; pectoral, f 
ventral, and anal fins yellowish orange at tips deepening to orange pink, then dusky pinkish 
basally; anterior margins white with slight black line behind. 1 
Specimen 13| inches long. 
