_Tour to Lake Superior_ described a new salmon of that lake under
the name of _Salmo Siskowet_, calls it _Salmo Siskowitz_, and this
mistake Hallock repeats. Again, Herbert writing of the great northern
pickerel, calls it "_Esox lucioides_, Agassiz;" the fact being that
Professor Agassiz describes it in his _Lake Superior_ as _Esox boreas_.
This mistake of Herbert has been perpetuated by most of the popular
writers, Norris, Roosevelt, etc. Mr. Hallock calls the sea-trout _Salmo
trutta_, again copying Herbert, while all naturalists now give it the
name bestowed upon it by Hamilton Smith, _Salmo Canadensis_, it being
very distinct from _Salmo trutta_, which is a European species. Mr.
Hallock writes of the "toag of Lakes Pepin, Moosehead and St. Croix."
Now, Lake Pepin contains no large gray trout; in fact, with the
exception of _Salmo fontinalis_, its fishes are all of the Western type.
He also mentions "the common lake-trout of New York and New England,
_Salmo confinis_, DeKay," which is identical with the toag, just
mentioned. Dr. A. L. Adams of the British army, in a recent work on the
_Natural History of New Brunswick_, calls it "the togue or toladi,
_Salmo confinis_, DeKay, the gray-spotted lake-trout." Mr. Hallock
asserts that _Salmo Sebago_ is a monster brook-trout, like those of the
Rangely lakes. Dr. Adams states that this name, _Salmo Sebago_, was
applied to the Schoodic salmon, _Salmo Gloveri_, by Girard, in 1853; the
species being first observed in that lake, where it is now said to be
extinct.

As a guide-book, _The Fishing Tourist_ is not without value, for a work
on this plan was needed. An unfortunate spirit of exaggeration seems,
however, to pervade the narrative. What remarkable good luck a man must
have who kills a four-pound trout at Bartlett's! How fortunate is he who
can make an average of two-pound trout in a New Hampshire river! Our
experience teaches us that it is dangerous to guarantee that no trout
under ten ounces will be found in the Tabasintoc, though one might say
that of the Novelle, another New Brunswick river. When Mr. Hallock
states that the trout in the "Big Woods" of Wisconsin are lamentably
ignorant of the angler's wiles, he must be referring to a remote period:
we find them now very wide awake, and meet almost as many anglers on
Rush River as on the Raquette.

Mr. Prime's book is a very pleasant one. Evidently the work of a
scholar, it indulges in none of those spasmodic efforts of