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to Mr. Aiken, the lake trout are shorter and thicker and the flesh is more highly colored and has 
an excellent flavor.” 
In the Fishes of New York (Bull. N. Y. State Mus., no. 00 , Zoology 0, p. 269 , 1903 ), 
Bean remarks that Conunissioner N. Wentworth, of Hudson Center, N. H., forwarded two New 
Hampshire Lake Trout, one from Newfound Lake, the other from Winnepesaukee. They were 
sent to determine whether the trout of the two lakes, which the fishermen assert are different 
species, really are distinct. The Conunissioner wrote that “the Newfound fish has a darker 
flesh, more like the sea salmon. This is not caused by their food, as both lakes are alive with 
smelts. The Winnepesaukee lake trout are better biters; tons of them are caught through 
the ice every winter. The Newfound trout are hardly ever caught through the ice. A few 
were caught last winter for the first time to my knowledge. I am sure there is but one variety 
in Newfound Lake. We had one in the tanks this fall that would weigh 25 pounds. The only 
differences to be found on examination were such as relate to the depths at which the two 
races habitually live; one is the slim, dark colored tuladi, and the other the common lake trout 
of the Great Lakes.” 
A Moosehead Lake guide once told the present writer that in that lake there were two 
forms, one a long, slender, and dark-colored fish called the “togue,” the other plump, light- 
colored, and silvery called the “silver laker.” 
With such extreme variations it is quite obvious that no technical description drawn from 
one individual will apply to all forms of the species. For that reason a somewhat modified 
description of the Winnepesaukee fish is abstracted from Prescott’s description of Salmo sym- | 
metrica and another from Hamlin’s description of Salmo toma. To these descriptions are added 
notes taken from other individuals from Maine and New Hampshire, respectively, and compari- 
son of proportional measurements of a New England fish made with one from the Great Lakes. 
While these show no specific differences, they indicate local variations that perhaps are more 
than ontogenetic. 
Descriptions. 
“Salmo symmetrica. Winnipisseogee Trout. 
“There are many points of resemblance between this trout and the Salmo confinis, or lake ■ 
trout of Dougherty, and the Salmo ameihystus, or Mackinaw trout of Kirtland. Yet in many 
of its characteristic markings it obviously differs from each. We observe first as to the form: ! 
while the Winnipisseogee trout is slender and symmetrical in form, a specimen measuring 
twenty inches in length weighing but thirty ounces, and another of thirty-six inches but twelve 
and a half pounds; the lake trout, as described and figured by DeKay, has a robust body and is ; 
comparatively short in proportion to its weight, a specimen measuring thirty-one inches weighing 
fifteen pounds. 
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