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regular business, and they are advertised by English 

 agents every winter. 



Salmo fontinalis is a most lovely fisli. Its dominant 

 colours are green, dusky green of various hues mottled 

 with yellow spots, the spots having a beautiful blue or 

 carmine speck in the centre ; the belly is silvery white, 

 with a roseate tinge ; the pectoral fins have a beautiful 

 margin of a cream-white colour. I cordially recom- 

 mend it for such places as ornamental fountains in 

 gardens and small ponds. It requires regular feeding 

 and looking after. They would do well on gentlemen's 

 estates where there are small brooks and trout streams. 

 They should be fenced in, or they may possibly escape. 



I have some splendid specimens at my museum, 

 South Kensington, one, two, and three years old. I 

 have also bred from them in captivity for the last three 

 or four years. These fish will breed in the third year; 

 some however will give eggs in the second 3'ear. 



Of this fish Rooswelt writes: "Brook Trout are in 

 season from the 1st of February to 1st of September in 

 the Long Island streams, from May to September in 

 the middle and eastern States." " 



Frank Forrester, in his "Fish and Fishing,"! tells us 

 that his manners, haunts, mode of feeding, &c., closely 

 resemble those of the European trout ; and the flies, 

 baits, and general style of tackle are the same in both 

 instances. 



These fish are found along the shores of Lake 

 Superior, the lakelets of New York, Maine, New 

 Hampshire, and the Canadas, Lake Nipissiguit in New 

 Brunswick, the tributaries of St. John, Merrimac, &c. 



* "The Game Fish of the Northern States." Carlton, 430, 

 Broadway, New Ycrk. 



t Towusend, publisher, New York. 



