THE NAMAYCUSH. 
THE LAKE TROUTS. 
Namaycush, Togue and Siscowet. 
The generous gushing of the springs, 
When the angler goes a-trolling, 
The stir of song and summer wings, 
The line which shines, and life which sings 
Make earth replete with happy things 
When the angler goes a-trolling.” 
Thomas Tod Stoddart. 
* I 'HE Mackinaw Trout, or Namaycush, is a non-migratory species inhab¬ 
iting the chain of Great Lakes from Superior to Ontario, as well as Lake 
Champlain and many other smaller lakes of the United States and of 
British America, occurring also to the Northeastward, in Mackinaw River 
and in the Knowall River, Alaska. 
“ The Lake Trout is,” remarks Bean, “ a species remarkable for its great 
size, reaching 3 feet and sometimes weighing 40 pounds ; varying greatly in 
coloration, the extremes noteworthy in Maine and Alaska. It seem to have 
no parallel in Europe and is well separated from American species by its 
peculiar vomer and its large number of pyloric caeca (about 150).” 
Every lake of Northern New York and New England has its own 
variety, which the local angler stoutly maintains to be a different species 
from that found in the next township. Some are as black as a tautog, 
some brown with crimson spots, some gray, with delicate reticulations like 
those of a pickerel. The usual type to be found in the Great Lakes is 
brown or gray, dappled with lighter shades of the same general tints. 
