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fears, which, however, are not shared in by many who 

 are familiar with the conditions at Sunapee, that the 

 beautiful golden trout, unless the object of the utmost 

 conservative attention, is doomed to extinction in the 

 same way and for a similar reason as the Rangeley blue- 

 back. 



After the pictures of the Sunapee trout you come to 

 the "peculiar trout" of Monadnock lake or Dublin pond, 

 New Hampshire, described and named by Mr. Samuel 

 Garman, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam- 

 bridge, in 1885. This fish (demonstration) was the sub- 

 ject of controversy for many years, to settle which speci- 

 mens were sent, from time to time, to different authori- 

 ties. It was sometime in the early sixties that Prof. 

 Louis Agassiz, having received some specimens, consid- 

 ered them closely allied to a form found in Switzerland. 

 Later, Prof. Baird pronounced it a variety of the com- 

 mon lake trout, after which, by others, it was denomi- 

 nated a color form of the common brook trout, and ap- 

 parently, subsequently to his description of it as a new 

 species, Garman regarded it as a color variety of the 

 brook trout. To cut a long story short, I will simply state 

 that the trout appears to be in its habits and general 

 appearance more closely allied to the golden trout of Sun- 

 apee lake and the blue-back of Rangeley than to the com- 

 mon trout. All that it seems to have in common with the 

 latter is the mottled dorsal and caudal fins. 



The last picture (demonstration) is not a good repre- 

 sentative of the brook trout as we know it, but in respect 

 to its coloration there is an interesting fact. That fish 

 was artificially raised in a little pond in Falmouth, Maine. 

 You will notice that the colors of the ventral region are 

 brilliant orange or yellow. The trout from which the 

 eggs were obtained that produced the Falmouth fish were 

 I from a pond in Hollis, Maine. They were of an intense 

 rose color, but in their progeny became the yellow trout 

 of Falmouth, indicating that color of this kind alone can 

 be of no specific value, at least so far as the brook trout 

 ^re concerned. 



