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and its basal length 1.83 in length of head; distance frona tip of snout to base of pectoral 1.28, ^ 
and length of pectoral 1.52 in length of head; ventral length about equaling dorsal height, 1.62 i 
in head, its distance from pectoral to its base considerably more than length of head, 3.39 in 
length of body without caudal; distance from base of ventral to origin of anal about equaling 
distance from posterior dorsal to adipose, and from origin of anal to lower base of caudal, 1.53 
in distance from base of pectoral to base of ventral; base of anal 2.39 and its height 1.89 in head; 
distance from origin of anal to middle base of caudal greater than length of head, 3.45 in length 
of body without caudal, or about equaling distance from base of pectoral to base of ventral; 
anal rays 11; the distance from tip of snout to ventral about equaling distance from base of | 
ventral to fork of caudal. Tail strongly forked, the shortest ray less than one third the length 
of the lower ray. 
Coloration.— Above, deep olive, irregularly spotted with lighter olive, both body color and 
spots becoming lighter downward toward the longitudinal axis of the body, the spots becoming 
smaller and fainter until lost in the pale olive yellow of the lower parts, lightening to Naples 1 
yellow, and in the lower line of the body to yellowish white; color of dorsal similar to back lighten- 
ing toward tip with yellow dusky-margined spots on the interspinous membrane, growing fainter 
and the dusky margins disappearing toward the upper margin of the fin; adipose darker than 
back with olive spots; caudal olive green; darkest basally, lighter toward the terminal margin, 
with about five indistinct and incomplete black cross-bars on the upper and lower margins of the 
fin and a few small yellow spots at base of fin; pectoral, ventral, and anal pale pinkish at tips, 
median faint dusky bar, growing yellowish on pinkish base, all the colors blending into each other I 
with no sharp demarcation; narrow white anterior margin. 
Head, color of back,_ darker on top, paling on sides, with coppery and yellowish-green ■ 
iridescence; lower jaw pale yellowish green to whitish; iris dull yellowish orange clouded with 
dusky. 
Specimen 16| inches long from Thompson Pond, Oxford, Maine. 1 
Synonymy.! 
Namaycush * * Trutta lacustris generis Pennant, Thomas, Arctic Zoology, vol. 1, Introduction, p. cxci, 
1784, “Hudson’s Bay Lakes far inland,” and Salmon, Namaycush, Supplement, p. 139, 1785, “Lakes of 
Hudson’s Bay.” 
Salmo namaycush Walbaitm, .Johan .Julius, Petri Sueci Genera Piscium, p. 68, 1792, (after Pennant). 
— Garman, S., “The American Salmon and Trout, including introduced Species,” Nineteenth Annual 
Report of the [Mass.] Commissioners of Inland J'isheries, p. 73, figs. 10, 11, 1885, “ The great lakes and their 
tributaries, eastward to the Atlantic, northward to Hudson’s Bay.” — Thompson, Zadock, History of 
* Excepting the original, all of the references are the most important of those pertaining only to New England, I 
