324 The Trouts of America 



pinkish spots on the body. I have no authen- 

 tic reports of the game quahties of these charrs, 

 but doubtless they rise freely to the flies and 

 resist capture bravely. 



Perhaps no fish has been the subject of so 

 much discussion as the Sunapee trout, and the 

 pages that have been printed on the subject of 

 its original habitat, whether native born, for- 

 eign, or a hybrid, would fill an octavo volume 

 with pros and cons, and at the end of it all we 

 would be no wiser. So close is the structure of 

 the Sunapee trout to the other saiblings that 

 Professor T. H. Bean was compelled to resort to 

 its peculiar and beautiful coloration that an 

 appropriate technical name might be found for it, 

 although the coloration of a fish, by strict 

 ichthyological law, is not a factor in classification. 

 This trout is scientifically known as Salvelinus 

 alpinus mireolus, alpinus being the specific title 

 of the saibling, and atcreolus, "golden." As 

 it is commonly called by New England anglers 

 and others the " golden trout," confusion, as I 

 have before stated, is apt to arise owing to the 

 similarity of name with that of the true golden 

 trout of Mt. Whitney, California. 



The Sunapee trout is only found, within our 



