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stock tho lake. It is ii ])r()fusoly black-sj)()t led fish, and could be 

 confused witli no other salmonoid in tlie lake, unless ))ossibly the 

 ehinook and landlocked salmon. From the former it may be dls- 

 tinj:;uished by the fewer anal rays and from the latter by the finer or 

 larger number of scales in the lateral longitudinal series, the land- 

 locked salmon having not over 120, usually 115, all told, aaid the 

 rainbow having 145, more or less. It is a delightfully gamy fish 

 as a rule, and readily takes the artificial fly. It usually makes a 

 long hard fight. 



Considering the comparative harmlessness of the rahibow trout 

 compared with the ehinook and landlocked salmon, it seems a pity 

 that the w^aters of Sunapee are not more favorable to it and have not 

 rc^ceived more ]:)lants, if it seems necessary to stock it with non- 

 indigenous fishes. 



Bkowx Tuout (Salmofarlo). 



The fish better known in this country as brown trout was first 

 introduced under the name of Von Behr trout, after the man through 

 whose instrumentality the eggs were obtained from Germany. It 

 was later called German brown trout and finally just brown trout. 

 In Great Britain it is known as brook trout, burn trout, and brown 

 trout, also ha^'ing many other names for local variations. In 

 Germany it is the Bach-foreUe (brook trout), but it is not exclusively 

 a brook trout any more than the eastern brook trout of the United 

 States {Salvelinus fontinalis) is such. It also inhabits lakes, in 

 some of which it reaches a large size, even 50 pounds, if the British 

 Salmo ferox is the same species. Day, in his "British and Irish 

 Salmonidse," 1887, gives the habitat of this trout as the colder and 

 temperate portions of the Northern Hemisphere, descending in Asia 

 as far south as the Hindu Kush, but not normally present in any 

 })ortion of Hindustan. 



It has been intro<hiced into many United States waters, in some of 

 which it has thrived. It is a good game fish, but Henshall says it 

 is not as gamy in this country as the eastern trout (S. fontinalis). 

 It wUl endure warmer w^ater than S. fontinalis and may be suited 

 to de])leted trout streams which, owdng to change of conditions, are 

 unsuited to the brook trout. 



Day says: 



The food which trout con-suinc i.s of various doycriptions. One of about lA pounds 

 weight, taken in June, 1882, in the Tweed, was found to contain 11 small trout and 

 1 minnow. They do not object to little fish, as the minnow, loach, sticklebacks, etc, 

 water rats, younR birds, frogs, snails, slugs, worms, leeches, maggots, flies, beetles, 

 moths, water spiders, and even a lizard (Field, October, 1885). They will swallow one 

 of their own kind two-tliirds as large as themselves. In Mr. Buckland's museum was 

 an example, the stomach of which was distended by 2,470 eggs of apparently the salmon. 



