. 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. S^LMOMD^ 131 AUDOMINAL MALACOPTERYfJIl. SALM(>NlUi£,. BACK'S GRAYLING. THE ARCTIC GRAYLING. Thymallua Signifer; RichardMon, C\x\\eT.—Hewlook'powak ; Esquimaux.—Pnis- son Bleu ; Can. Voy. The exceeding beauty, and remarkably game qualities of this noble fish, have induced me to give him a place in these pages, to which his place of nativity hardly entitles him, as he is, I fear, to be found no where south
. 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. S^LMOMD^ 131 AUDOMINAL MALACOPTERYfJIl. SALM(>NlUi£,. BACK'S GRAYLING. THE ARCTIC GRAYLING. Thymallua Signifer; RichardMon, C\x\\eT.—Hewlook'powak ; Esquimaux.—Pnis- son Bleu ; Can. Voy. The exceeding beauty, and remarkably game qualities of this noble fish, have induced me to give him a place in these pages, to which his place of nativity hardly entitles him, as he is, I fear, to be found no where southward of the 62nd parallel of latitude, between Mackenzie's river and the Welcome. " Its highly appropriate Esquimaux title," says Dr. Richardson, from whose fine work on the Fauna of Arctic America J have borrowed both the matter of this paper and the cut at the head of this page, " denoting ' wing-like fin,' alludes to its mag- nificent dorsal; and it was in reference to the same feature that I be- stowed upon it the specific appellation of Signifer^ ' the standard- bearer,' intending also to advert to the rank of my companion. Cap- tain Back, then a midshipman, who took the first specimen we saw with the artificial ; I may remark here, that the European Grayling has the similar ap- pellation of Vexillifer, or the " banner-bearer," in allusion to the same feature, although the fin is greatly inferior in size to that of the fish i;'-! i\ If'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858. New York : Stringer & Townsend
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