460 A ME RICA A? FISHES. 



In February, 18S5, a box containing 40,000 eggs in very good order was 

 received at Cold Spring, from the German Fischerei-Verein. The fry 

 from these eggs, which when hatched and ready for distribution amounted 

 to about 28,000, were mostly planted on Long Island and near the Hudson. 



In 1885, eggs were taken by several other persons, as well as at the Cold 

 Spring Harbor Station, from fish which had been bred from eggs sent over 

 from Germany two or three years before. The average number of eggs 

 taken in one case (the fish being three-year-olds) was 540, and there are 

 indications that this yield will increase. This valuable fish has thus been 

 successfully acclimatized in this country, and their cultivation may to 

 good advantage be greatly extended, as they are considered superior in 

 many respects to our native brook trout. 



The Brown Trout is an excellent table fish and attains a much larger 

 growth than the species found in the United States, a weight of from 10 

 to 20 pounds being not unusual. Prof. Baird, in introducing it, hoped that 

 it might be available for some localities not so well fitted for the brook 

 trout, where, by its rapid growth and the size to which it attains, it may 

 constitute an important article of food. 



The Loch Leven Trout, Sahno levenensis, has also been introduced 

 within the past few years. One hundred thousand eggs were received in 

 excellent condition on January 7, 1885, from Scotland, having been sent 

 by Sir James Gibson Maitland, of the Howietoun fishery, Stirlingshire, 

 and repacked by Mr. Fred Mather, of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., by 

 whom all shipments of eggs to and from Europe were skilfully and suc- 

 cessfully handled. Fifty-five thousand of the eggs were distributed to the 

 commissioners of New Hampshire, Iowa, Minnesota, and Maine, includ- 

 ing to the Bisby Club, in Herkimer Co., N. Y. The loss of the eggs in 

 hatching was very slight, and only a few of the fry died in the tanks. Of 

 the 43,500 that were hatched at Northville, 36,500 were planted in 

 various streams in Michigan, and 7,000 were retained at the hatchery for 

 breeding purposes. 



Of the 10,000 eggs which were sent to Bucksport, about 3,000 were 

 lost, and the remaining 7,000 fry were planted in May, in Branch Pond 

 and its tributary brooks, near Ainsworth, Maine. 



" There is some difference of opinion," remarks Bean, "as to the dis- 

 tinctness of the Loch Leven Trout from the Brown Trout ; for the present 

 we may use the characters mentioned by Dr. Gunther and stated in the 

 key to the species, on page 455. 



