. 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. SALMONIDiB. 105 of Mackinaw Salmon, by which it is commonly known, is therefore a misnomer, since it is no more peculiar to the straits of Michilimackinac than to any other locality between the Falls of Niagara and the Arctic ocean. The term Namaycush, which Pennant adopted, and Dr. Rich- ardson has retained, both as its English name and its scientific distinc- tion, is no more than its denomination by the
. 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. SALMONIDiB. 105 of Mackinaw Salmon, by which it is commonly known, is therefore a misnomer, since it is no more peculiar to the straits of Michilimackinac than to any other locality between the Falls of Niagara and the Arctic ocean. The term Namaycush, which Pennant adopted, and Dr. Rich- ardson has retained, both as its English name and its scientific distinc- tion, is no more than its denomination by the Cree Indians, who torm it Nammecoos, and I confess I think it in both respects preferable to any other; for Dr. Mitchil's scientific name Amethystus, which he gave it in consequence of a faint purplish tinge perceptible on the teeth, gums, and roof of the mouth, is founded on a peculiarity so slight—I speak on the authority of Prof. Agassiz—as in many specimens to be scarcely distinguishable ; while it has no name in the English language defining it from the Siskawitz, inhabiting the same waters, or from the common Lake Trout, Salmo ConfiniSj of the New York and New England lakes. It is a remarkable fact, that at least one-half of our inland or fresh- water fishes have no correct English names, no names at all in fact, but such arbitrary and erroneous terms as were applied to them igno- rantly, by the first English settlers in the districts in which they are found, and have been adhered to since for lack not of better, but of any real names. Thus the peculiar fish of Lake Otsego, though fully ascertained to be, and scientifically distinguished as, one of the family Salmonidcc, and defined as Coregonus Otsego, has, to this day, no other appellation in the vernacular than the absurd misnomer of Otsego Bass, to which species it has no relation whatsoever. The same is the case with the fish called " Trout,'''' by the inhabitants of Carolina and the neighboring States, whi
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