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injured or inconvenienced by the treatment. In captivity the food consists almost 

 entirely of chopped hard clams and liver for the young, while hard clams, live 

 killifish and occasional earthworms are given to the large fish. The increase in size 

 with such feeding is remarkable. A Brook Trout from Caledonia, N. Y., not more 

 than 3^ inches long in November, 1896, measured 12^ inches in length and 3^ 

 inches in depth December 10, 1897. 



A single young Brook Trout from Caledonia survived in water of 76 F., but that 

 temperature was generally fatal to the species. 



Dr. Meek has found the trout in small streams on the uplands throughout the 

 Cayuga Lake basin. 



Mitchill knew this fish chiefly as an inhabitant of Long Island waters, and has 

 given an interesting account of the fishing at Nichols', Patchogue and Fireplace, 

 where a Mr. Robbins in 12 days in the summer of 1814 caught 190 trout weighing 

 139 pounds ii ounces. The largest at Patchogue weighed 2^/ 2 pounds, the largest 

 at Fireplace, 3 pounds. A Mr. Purvis of New York caught a trout measuring 

 24 inches and weighing 4^ pounds at Fireplace. 



At that time, according to Mitchill, the trout was " bought at the extravagant 

 price of a quarter of a dollar for a single fish not more than 10 or 12 inches 

 long," and New York anglers traveled " away to Hempstead and Islip for the 

 pleasure of catching and eating him." 



69. Saibling (Salvelinus alpinus Linnseus). (Introduced.) 



Salmo alpinus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. X, I, 309, 1758, Lapland, West Gothland. 

 Salvelinus alpinus BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Sterling Lake, New York and New 



Jersey ; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Check-List Fish. N. A., 293, 1896 ; and Bull. 47, 



U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 508, 1896. 



Body moderately elongate, compressed, its greatest depth two-ninths of total 

 length to caudal base ; the caudal peduncle short and stout, its least depth two-fifths 

 of length of head ; head rather short, its length contained from four and one-third 

 to four and one-half times in total length to base of caudal (middle caudal rays). 

 The body is somewhat elevated at the nape and for a short distance behind it. 

 Mouth large, the maxilla reaching somewhat behind eye, its greatest width less than 

 one-fourth of its length, the upper jaw one-half as long as the head ; eye rather 

 large, nearly equal to snout, one-fifth of length of head ; interorbital space convex, 

 one and one-half times diameter of eye; lower jaw very slightly projecting; vome- 

 rine teeth in a very small patch on the head of the bone, lingual teeth strong, teeth 

 on both jaws well developed, those of the mandible strongest ; gill rakers short, 



