2o8 The Trouts of America 



arch ; and the rays and pines in the formation 

 of the fins. 



It may be well before going farther to warn the 

 layman-naturalist and angler against the common 

 use of the phrase " salmon-trout." In every 

 section of the country, on the Pacific Slope as 

 well as on the Atlantic, whenever a big steelhead, 

 cut-throat, rainbow, or any other trout, sea-run or 

 otherwise, of unusual size is taken, it is baptized 

 at once a " salmon-trout," without designation of 

 species ; and the same popular name is given in 

 the Middle West and East to the Great Lake trout 

 or togue, which is purely a coarse charr-trout. 

 Popular and local nomenclature is becoming more 

 mixed and confusing with each fishing season, and 

 before many more pass away, our legislators will 

 be obliged to use the technical scientific names of 

 fishes that they may be identified for protection 

 under the law. 



That the layman-angler may have a still clearer 

 perception of the present classification of the black- 

 spotted or cut-throat series of salmon-trouts, I 

 quote Jordan and Evermann, the editors of " The 

 Fishes of North and Middle America," published 

 by authority of the Smithsonian Institution : — 



" It is not unlikely that when the waters of the 



