198 DOMESTICATED TROUT. 



Salmo fontinalis. Brook Trout. Ayres, Bost. Journ. 



Nat. Hist., IV. p. 273. 

 Salmo fontinalis. Common Brook Trout. Kirtland, 



Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., IV. p. 305. 

 Salmo fontinalis. Common Brook Trout. Storer, 



Mem. Amer. Acacl., new series, II. p. 444. 

 Salmo fontinalis. Common Brook Trout. Synopsis, 



p. 192 j Cuv. & Val., Nat. Hist, de Pois., XXI. p. 



266. 



Color. — The upper part of the body is of a pale 

 brown, mottled with darker undulating, reticulated 

 markings ; the sides lighter, with a great number of 

 circular yellow spots, varying in their size from a small 

 point to a line or more in diameter, and many of them 

 having in the centre a bright red spot ; sometimes, the 

 yellow color surrounding them having partially disap- 

 peared, they seem distinct from the circular spots, or 

 are surrounded by a dull bluish halo ; these red spots 

 differ exceedingly in number in different specimens, 

 in some three or four only are observable, and those are 

 situated below the lateral line ; in others, twenty or 

 more are seen, scattered above and below the lateral 

 line indiscriminately, presenting a beautiful appear- 

 ance. The body beneath is white, yellowish-white, 

 slightly or dark fuliginous. Head above darker than 

 the back of the fish. Gill-covers golden, and fuligi- 

 nous. The dorsal fin is yellow with irregular trans- 

 verse black bands. The first ray of the pectorals and 

 ventrals is white, the second dark-colored, the remain- 

 der of the fin is red. The first ray of the anal fin is 

 white, the remainder generally red. The caudal fin is 

 of a dirty reddish -brown, mottled with black spots. 



