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ers, the duns, the spinners, the February Red, the 

 March Brown, the Alder, the Stone, the Sand-fly ; 

 these are said to kill always when the fish are 

 rising. It must not be forgotten that the flies 

 recommended in Colton's addenda to Walton's 

 " Compleat Angler," published in 1653, are even 

 now among the most deadly for trout, not only 

 in England, but in America. 



The brown trout is, in American waters, rather 

 slimmer in build than our American red-spotted 

 trout, with a larger and more pointed head. 

 The back is dark green covered with well-de- 

 fined black spots, and the dorsal fin has both 

 black and bright red or vermilion spots ; the 

 adipose, or fatty fin, is also beautifully decorated 

 with three red spots. Below the lateral line 

 the coloration is of a yellowish cast with a 

 greenish silvery background. The tail, or cau- 

 dal fin, is square, and on its edges there is a 

 reddish stripe; the other fins are orange in 

 color, the ventral and anal having a white stripe 

 on the under edge shaded with deep orange ; 

 the head, the under part of which is yellow, and 

 the gill covers are covered with dark spots, the 

 belly is pure white, above which is a deep yel- 

 low hue. The fish commence spawning in New 



