46 SEA TROUT. 
endeavor to discover new species and originate new 
names, has caught at the slightest distinctions in appear- 
ance, which are often only due to food or water, and has 
immediately dubbed the fish a knight and endowed him 
with a new name — frequently some horrible Latin per- 
version of his own. Real distinctions are those perma- 
nent ones that no change of food and water can aifect, 
nor the chance influence of a few shell-fish or a muddy 
bottom. There are distinctions between these trout and 
brook trout, of color, comparative size of different parts 
of the body, formation of the head and fins ; but not 
more so than one often meets with in fishing any of the 
streams of Long Island that communicate with the sea, 
or even in the different streams of the wild woods. The 
sea trout of Canada certainly do far excel the ordinary 
trout in size, being taken, with the fly, weighing nine 
pounds, and the ordinary average being from three to 
four; but otherwise they seem to have no permanent 
peculiarity that should distinguish them from the com- 
mon brook trout. All other distinctions fade after the 
trout have been for some time in fresh water, and a late 
run of sea trout differs far more from those which have 
ascended the streams a month earlier than the latter 
from the brook trout. Indeed, some sea trout have 
become domesticated in the fresh water, and never 
returning to the sea, have settled down, although often 
of great size, into the ordinary trout. 
In Stump Pond, on Long Island, and the adjacent 
waters, are four different varieties of trout : the old- 
fashioned Stump Pond Trout, with a black mouth, a 
long, thin body, a big head, and a wolfish, huogry 
