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three or four years old, and then are faint in 

 color. 



The habitat of the rainbow trouts is in the 

 mountain streams of the Pacific coast, the type 

 of the species being found in the brooks of the 

 Coast Range, in California, from the Klamath 

 River to San Luis Rey. So popular, however, 

 is this fish, not only among anglers but with 

 fish culturists, that it has been very generally 

 introduced not alone in the Eastern states, but 

 also in the waters of those states between the 

 Alleghany Range and the Rocky Mountains. The 

 United States Fish Commission has sent to Eng- 

 land shipments of the eggs of the rainbow which 

 have been successfully hatched. With the usual 

 conservatism of Englishmen, however, the anglers 

 of that country hesitate to place rainbow in waters 

 inhabited by the native brown trout, than which 

 the rainbow is vastly superior both as an edible 

 and as a rod fish. 



Following the usual classification, " the brook 

 trout of western Oregon " {Salmo irideus masoni) 

 is the most prominent of the five subspecific 

 forms into which the species have been divided. 

 It is the common brook trout of the Lower 

 Columbia and of the coastwise streams of Oregon 



