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Vermont, Natural, Civil and Statistical, part 1, chapter 5, “Fishes of Vermont,” p. 140, fig., 1852, 
“Longe or Salmon Trout,” “Lake Champlain and several ponds in the Northern part of Vermont.” 
Salmo symmetrica Prescott, William, “Descriptions of New Species of Fishes; from a Synopsis of the 
h'ishes of the Winnipisseogee and its connecting waters.” Read before the Association of American 
Geologists and Naturalists held in Boston in Sept., 1847. Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, ser. 2, vol. 11, 
p. 340, May, 1851, “Winnipisseogee Trout.” 
Cristivomcr namaycush Evermann, B. W., and Kendall, W. C., “Annotated List of the Fishes known from 
the State of Vermont,” Report U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1894, p. 591, 1896, 
Lakes Champlain and Memphremagog, (Lake Trout, Longe, Togue).— Kendall, W. C., and Golds- 
BOROUGII, E. L., “The Fishes of the Connecticut Lakes and Neighboring Waters,” Bureau of Fisheries 
Document, no. 033, p. 50, 1908, (“Laker,” “Lunge”), Connecticut Lakes, N. H.— Kendall, William C., 
“Fauna of New England, List of the Pisces,” Occa.sional Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, 
no. 8, p. 45, 1908, (Great Lakes Trout, Mackinaw Trout, Namaycush, Lunge, Togue, Laker, Lake Trout). 
Me.— Most deep lakes in eastern and northern Maine. Thompson Pond in Poland; Tiink Lakes in Han- 
cock County; Lakes of the Upper Kennebec, Penobscot and St. .John’s Rivers, and the St. Croix system. 
X. H.— Winnepesaukee Lake; Squam Lake; East Pond in Enfield; Newfound Lake and First and Second 
Connecticut Lakes. Vt.— Lake Champlain; Bellwater Pond in Barton and several ponds in Glover 
and Charleston; I.ake Memphremagog; Caspian Lake; Dunmore; Willoughby; Maidstone. 
Salmo solar Williams, Samuel, The Natural and Civil History of Vermont, pp. 121, 122, 1794 (Salmon Trout), 
Lake Champlain and in the rivers and ponds connected with it; pond in lA-icester. 
Salmo trucia? Belknap, Jeremy, The History of New Hampshire, vol. 3, p. 1 /9, 1792 (Salmon Trout, in part), 
.Some bays of Winnipiseogee lake and river. 
Sn/mo toma Hamlin, Augustus C., Brochure on the togue (privately printed, about 1853); and in Holmes, 
Ezekiel, Second Annual Report on the Natural History and Geology of Maine, p. 109, 1862, “Great 
lakes and deep mountain tarns of Maine and New Brunswick ; also Maine Sportsman, p. 173,* May , 1903. 
Blueback Trout. 
Salvelinus oquassa (Girard). 
Plate 4, Fig. 5 (male); Fig. 6 (female). 
The Blueback is a representative of the group of alpine or northern charrs which at the time 
of its first description was known from no other waters in this country. It was later recognized 
as a close relative of certain Arctic forms. It is closely allied to the Sunapee Lake MTiite Trout 
and the Canadian Red Trout, the latter having been designated by some ichthyologists as a sub- 
species of the Blueback, and it was at one time contended by many that the former w'as derived 
from Bluebacks that had been planted in the lake. It has been suggested that all of the nominal 
‘ “The Salmo Toma or Togue,” by Augustus C. Hamlin, M. D.; “A half a century ago, 1 described the great trout 
of our lakes known as the togue, after the noble Indian Peol Toma, of the Passamaquoddy tribe. The description and name 
bestowed still hold good.” 
