German Trout 271 



on the west side of Mt. Whitney that are trib- 

 utary to Kern River, and to its south fork ; it 

 has been largely introduced into streams about 

 Owen Lake on the east side of the mountains, 

 waters that were formerly entirely destitute of 

 trout. 



Of the three foreign species of salmon-trouts 

 transplanted to American waters, the best known 

 by anglers is the German or brown trout {Salmo 

 fario), which were planted in our streams in 1883. 

 This fish, in its native waters, particularly those of 

 Great Britain, presents all the varied characteris- 

 tics of coloration and form that distinguish our 

 American trouts. In England, there appears to 

 be, at least, twenty trout living in streams not dis- 

 tant more than twenty-five miles from each other, 

 which the resident fishermen designate by names 

 such as "Tweed trout," " Teviot trout," "Ettrick 

 trout," etc., the source of the nomenclature being 

 the name of the river in which the fish lives. 

 These trout are all fario, but are readily distin- 

 guished one from the other by the shape and 

 bulk of the body and its distinctive coloration. 



The brown trout was the fish caught and eaten 

 by the ancient monks, and so ideally treated upon 

 by Walton and Cotton, by the Prioress of St. 



