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the dorsal, its length two-thirds of length of head. Caudal deeply forked, its middle 

 rays less than one-half as long as the outer, which are equal to length of head with- 

 out the snout. 



The fish is an immature male with about lo oblong parr marks on the sides and 

 with a few narrow dark blotches simulating half bands on the back from near the 

 nape to a point behind the dorsal fin ; numerous pale spots along the middle of the 

 sides, each of which no doLibt had a vermilion spot in the center in life. 



Sterling Lake is in New York and New Jersey; and it was stated that the trout 

 are found in streams emptying into the lake. This is noteworthy as being the only 

 instance, as far as known, of successful introduction of the Saibling into our waters. 



70. Sunapee Trout ; Golden Trout ; Silver Trout (Sir/vc/itms aurcolits Bean). 



(Introduced.) 



Salviiiiius aureohis Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 628, 1887, Sunapee Lake, New 



Hampshire. 

 Salvelintis alpiinis aiireolns Jordan, Forest and Stream, Jan. 22, 1891; Quackenbos, 



Trans. N. Y. Ac. Sci., XII, 139, 1893; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. 



Mus., I, 511, 1S96, pi. LXXXIII, fig. 220, 1900. 



sunapee trout. 



The type of the description. No. 39,334, was obtained in Sunapee Lake, N. H., 

 in the fall of 1887 by Dr. John D. Quackenbos. 



The length of the specimen to the caudal base is (i^L inches; the greatest 

 height of the body equals the length of the head, and is contained about four 

 times in the total without caudal ; the least height of the tail equals one-third the 

 length of the head. The maxilla reaches past the middle, but not to the end of 

 the eye ; its length is contained about two and two-thirds times in length of hcatl. 

 The length of the upper jaw is contained about two and one-third times in the 

 length of the head, and is equal to the longest anal ray ; the eye is a little longer 

 than the snout, and is contained four and two-sevenths times in the length of the 

 head ; hyoid teeth well developed ; tlie first dorsal is a little nearer the tip of snout 



