470 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



frozen in places and the eggs were rather dry and badly indented, The 

 loss in eggs was 687, and in fry was 836, total loss 1,523. We delivered 

 5,500 fry to Mr. George Snyder, Manhasset, Queen's County, New York. 

 We also distributed 22,500 fry, on account of the State of New York, 

 from eggs obtained at the station, and hatched and distributed 100,000 

 Kangeley (Me.) brook trout for Mr. Francis H. Weeks, of Cold Spring 

 Harbor, N. Y. 



(d) Brown trout (Salmo fario). — On February 24, 1885. I received 

 a package of 40,000 eggs of this fish from Herr von Behr, president of 

 the Deutsche Fixcherei-Yerein, one-half on account of Mr. E. G. Black- 

 ford and the remainder to me. The condition of the eggs was good. 

 On unpacking we removed 1,020 dead. There were distributed 28,900, 

 as shown by Table III. I believe this fish to be one of great value to 

 our trout streams. 



(e) Rainbow trout {Salmo irideus).—We received a case of 10,000 

 eggs of rainbow trout from the Northville station of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission on February 25. Condition, good ; loss on unpacking, 498. 

 Another package containing 10,000 was received from the same place 

 on March 9, and 288 dead ones were picked out. From these 20,000 we 

 lost 1,343 eggs and 4,254 fry, and distributed 14,500 fry. (See Table IV.) 



(/) Whitefish (Coregonus chtpeiformis). — Ou January 1 we received 

 from the North ville, Mich., station one case containing one million eggs of 

 whitefish in good order. From these we lost 2,445 eggs and 7,500 fry, 

 leaving 99,000 for distribution, as is shown by Table V. In this connec- 

 tion I would say that most favorable reports come from the stocking of 

 Great Pond, near Biverhead, Long Island, but I have not been able to 

 secure specimens. iMr. Nathaniel W. Foster, of Biverhead, president 

 of the Suffolk County Agricultural Society, has written me that small 

 whitefish have been taken from the pond and sent to the New York 

 City markets ; and others say that the fish are in the pond, but we lack 

 the absolute proof of specimens. 



(g) Blue-backed trout (Salvelinus oquassa). — On February 20 we 

 received a package of blue-backed trout eggs from the Maine Fish Com- 

 mission, purchased by Mr. Francis H. Weeks, of Cold Spring Harbor. 

 The number of eggs as estimated by the shipper is not known, owing to 

 an error in his mixing the lot for this station with one purchased by 

 Mr. Weeks for the Adiron dack Club. We estimate the number at about 

 7,000; for the number of dead eggs picked out was 3,647 and the fry lost 

 numbered 2,269, while about one thousand were placed in our ponds ; 

 but thus far we do not know that a single fish survived. 



Other work. — As this station is leased by the New York State Fish 

 Commission and its expenses paid by them, except those legitimately be- 

 longiugto the Uuited Statesin the work of the General Government, there 

 is no necessity of reporting in full the work done for the State. Still it 

 may be well to say that the hatching of smelts has been successful and 

 many thousands have been turned out. In the salt-water department 



