EXTENSION OF THE RECOEDED RANGE OF CERTAIN FISHES. 
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from Fenwick Island light-ship (located about 10 miles off the Delaware coast), and 
secured among tlie mackerel an Atlantic salmon weighing 16 pounds, which lish was 
sent home to Gloucester. Oapt. Jacobs, who communicated this information, says the 
fish was fat and in fine condition. Some of the crew of the vessel told the captain that 
there was another salmon which escaped over the cork-line while the seine was being 
^^dried in.” 
Dr. Goode, in the paragraph quoted, mentions the capture of salmon as far south 
as North Carolina, but we are not aware that the fish lias previously been recorded 
at sea in such a low latitude (38°) as that just cited. 
In the Great Lake region, the western or upper limit of the natural range of the 
salmon is sharply drawn at the falls of Niagara, althongh in recent years the occur- 
rence of the fish in Lake Ontario has been extremely rare. It was therefore with 
much surprise and satisfaction that on May 18, 1893, a letter was received from Dr. 
G. A. MacCallum, the president of the Ontario Fish and Game Commission, dated 
Dunnville, Ont., May 16, 1893, recording the capture of a salmon in the Grand Eiver 
at that place; it had been taken in a seine a few days before. 
Immediately uiron receipt of this letter Dr. MacCallum was communicated with 
and requested to obtain tbe fish in question, if possible, and send the same to Wash- 
ington. This the doctor was fortunately able to do, and the specimen arrived in good 
condition on June 5, and was examined by Hon. Marshall McDonald, the U. S. Com- 
missioner of Fish and Fisheries, and Prof. Barton W. Evermann, scientific assistant 
of the Commission. Inspection of the specimen disclosed its undoubted identity as an 
Atlantic salmon and oi)ened up an interesting question as to its occurrence in Lake 
Erie. In transmitting the si)ecimen, Dr. MacCallum wrote that two or three years 
previously a similar fish was taken in the same stream, and in the summer of 189li 
fishermen from Port Maitland sold several lots of them about town; Dr. MacCallum 
also quotes Mr. S. Wilmot, of Ottawa, as saying that a few years ago some of the same 
fish were taken in the Saugeen Eiver, Ontario, which flows into Lake Huron, wliere 
fry had been planted three or four years before. Dr. MacCalliTin raised the question 
as to Avliether the example obtained by him belonged by descent to the same lot. 
Dr. MacCallum describes the fish sent by him as follows: ? juv. Length of head,. 
75 mm.; of body, 355 mm.; of snout to orbit, 20 mm.; of orbit, 16 mm. B. 10, D. 13, 
A. 12, V. 9, P. 11. Pores, 113. Scales, 25-128-22. Coloration above bluish, but bluish 
green on head, otherwise silvery with rosy shading. Numerous x -shaped marks on 
flanks. Two or three teeth on transverse part of vomer, 8 irregularly disposed in two 
alternating rows on shaft. 
Eecurring to the question of the origin of the salmon in this locality, it may bo 
said that while the possibility of such a fish finding its way into Lake Erie from Lake 
Ontario, by way of the Erie or Welland canals, is to be conceded, the i)robability of 
such a thing is very remote. The explanation suggested by Dr. MacCallum is entitled 
to consideration in view of tiie easily traversed continuous water-course between 
Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Mention may also be pro])erly made of the exi^erimental 
planting of fry of the Atlantic salmon in the basin of Lake Erie by the U. S. Fish Com- 
mission. It does not appear from the records, however, that any fry have been depos- 
ited since 1876. Tracing the occurrence of the fish to this source, the small size of 
the specimen would consequently indicate that some of the young fish whose acclima- 
tion in the lake was attempted reached maturity and underwent the reprotluctive 
process and that their progeny survived. 
