. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] illustrated from nature by the author. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. THE OAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 23 •.,1 ''>i N 3 of their constitutions; and, it is probable, to the excellence of their flesh, and the courage and boldness of their tempers. To this class belong several of the finest and most important of all our fish, both as regards the table, and the sport; for to this are directly referable the Salmon, that king of the piscine world, the Sea Trout, the Striped Bass,
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] illustrated from nature by the author. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. THE OAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 23 •.,1 ''>i N 3 of their constitutions; and, it is probable, to the excellence of their flesh, and the courage and boldness of their tempers. To this class belong several of the finest and most important of all our fish, both as regards the table, and the sport; for to this are directly referable the Salmon, that king of the piscine world, the Sea Trout, the Striped Bass, the Shad, and the Smelt; both of which, for reasons which I shall give, when I am to treat of them, under their own proper heads, I admit as Game Fishes. Our fresh-water fishes, then, all belonging to the two classes above named, Malacopterygii^ soft-finned, and Acanthopterygiij or spiny- finned, are divided into the following families:— Of the first. Abdominal Malacopterygii, we have The family of SalmonidjE, of which the true sea Salmon is the type, and of which there are many varieties and sub-genera, both migratory and non-migratory; the principal are GenusSalmo: The True Salmon, Salmo Salar. The Greatest Lake Trout—Mackinaw Salmon—Salmo Amethystns. The Northern Lake Trout—Siskawitz—Salmo Siskamtz. The Lake Trout—Salmon Trout—Salmo Covjinis. The Sebago Trout, Salmo Sebago. The Arctic Char, Salmo Hoodii. The Sea Trout, White Trout, or Silver Trout—Salmo Trutta Marina. * The Brook Trout, Salmo Fontinalis. Genus Osmerub : The Smelt, Osmerus Viridescens. Genus Thymallus : The Arctic Grayling, Thymallus Signifer. Genus Coregonus : The White Fish, Coregonus Alhus. The Otsego Bass*—misnomer—Coregonus Otsego. * This very beautiful fish so closely resembles the White-fish, Coregonus Alhus, as to be conceived by many persons to be merely a casual variety. This, however, does not appear to be in truth the case. It is greatly to be regretted that true and diftin
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