. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE BROOK TROUTS OR CHARS. 4jj extensively salted at Kadiak in the sea-run condition under the name of Salmon Trout. Examples of twenty-four inches in length are known. The Greenland Trout, Salvelinus stagnalis, a native of Arctic America, is believed by Bean to be, with little doubt, the " Sea Trout " of Labrador, and of Canada. It rivals the Atlantic Salmon in size, and has no near connection with the " Sea Trout " of Euro
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE BROOK TROUTS OR CHARS. 4jj extensively salted at Kadiak in the sea-run condition under the name of Salmon Trout. Examples of twenty-four inches in length are known. The Greenland Trout, Salvelinus stagnalis, a native of Arctic America, is believed by Bean to be, with little doubt, the " Sea Trout " of Labrador, and of Canada. It rivals the Atlantic Salmon in size, and has no near connection with the " Sea Trout " of Europe. It is interest- ing to know that the anglers have probably been in the right and the ichthyologists wrong in regard to this interesting species, concerning which as yet we know very little. Hallock and others of our anglers have described its qualities as an angling fish very fully. S. stagnalis occurs in the lakes of Greenland. The National Museum has specimens from Disko, taken by Ensign Dresel, and from Labrador, obtained by THE OQUASSA OE BLUE BACK TEOUT. Salvelinus oquassa inhabits the lakes in Western Maine ; thence intro- duced into New York and New Hampshire. This is, says Bean, a small species, not known to exceed ten inches in length from existing collections. It is probably a land-locked form of ^. stagnalis, and specimens of much larger size may be expected. Its distribution, also, will be found to be more extensive. Closely related to the Oquassa is the Saibling, introduced into Massa- chusetts, New York, New Hampshire and Wisconsin, which, according to Bean, so closely resembles some of our native Chars as to make its recognition difficult A hybrid between the Saibling and our common Brook Trout has further increased the trouble of identification. This form, whether it be regarded as a single species or several related species, is distributed over all of Northwestern Europe, and possibly also over a portion of Asia, although, since the Asiatic represe
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