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cease to be. They will be hatched by machinery and raised 

 in ponds, and fattened on chopped liver, and grow flabby and 

 lose their spots. The trout of the restaurant will not cease to 

 be. He is no more like the trout of the wild river than the 

 fat and songless reedbird is like the bobolink. Gross feeding 

 and easy pond-life enervate and deprave him. The trout that 

 the children will know only by legend is the gold-sprinkled, 

 living arrow of the white water; able to zigzag up the cataract; 

 able to loiter in the rapids; whose dainty meat is the glancing 

 butterfly." 



The brook-trout adapts itself readily to cultivation in arti- 

 ficial ponds. It has been successfully transported to Europe, 

 and it is already abundant in certain streams in England, in Cali- 

 fornia, and elsewhere. 



In Dublin Pond, New Hampshire, is a gray variety without 

 red spots, called Salvelinus agassizi. 



The "Dolly Varden" trout, or malma (Salvelinus malma), is 

 very similar to the brook-trout, closely resembling it in size, form, 

 color, and habits. It is found always to the westward of the 

 Rocky Mountains, in the streams of northern California, Oregon, 



FIG. 76. Malma Trout, or "Dolly Varden," Salvelinus malma (Walbaum). 

 Cook Inlet, Alaska. 



Washington, and British Columbia, Alaska, and Kamtchatka, as 

 far as the Kurile Islands. It abounds in the sea in the north- 

 ward, and specimens of ten to twelve pounds weight are not 

 uncommon in Puget Sound and especially in Alaska. The Dolly 

 Varden trout is, in general, slenderer and less compressed than 

 the Eastern brook-trout. The red spots are found on the back 

 of the fish as well as on the sides, and the back and upper 

 fins are without the blackish marblings and blotches seen in 



