SEA-TROUT. 55 



In describing the fish Morris writes thus : "A Ca- 

 nadian trout, fresh from the sea, as compared with the 

 brook trout, has larger and more distinct scales ; the 

 form is not so much compressed ; the markings on the 

 back are lighter and not so vermiculated in form, but 

 resemble more the broken segments of a circle ; it has 

 fewer red spots, which are also less distinct." He also 

 thinks the sea-trout, until they attain the weight of 

 two pounds, more slender in form. Again I quote ver- 

 batim : " In color, when fresh run from the sea, this 

 fish is a light, bluish green on the back, light silvery 

 gray on the sides, and brilliant white on the belly ; the 

 ventral and anal fins entirely white ; the pectorals 

 brownish blue in front and the posterior rays rosy 

 white. The tail is quite forked in the young fish, as 

 in all the salmonidae, but when fully grown is slightly 

 lunate." 



Genio C. Scott, who laid no claim to being a scient- 

 ist, but who was a close observer, also compares the 

 same fish, which he calls the Silver-trout or sea-trout, 

 Trutta Argentina, or Trutta Marina, with the brook 

 trout. He says, " The sea-trout is similar to the brook- 

 trout in all facial peculiarities. It is shaped like the 

 brook-trout. The vermicular marks on the back, and 

 above the lateral line, are like those of the brook-trout; 

 its vermicular white and amber dots are like the brook- 

 trout's ; its fins are like the brook-trout's, even to the 

 square or slightly lunate end of the tail. It has the 

 amber back and silver sides of such brook- trout as have 



