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food regularly, and is always attractive because of its beauty 

 and graceful movements. It will live in fresh and salt water. 

 When it is attacked by fungus in fresh water, the parasite is 

 easily killed by introducing salt water, gradually increasing in 

 salinity, and the trout is not at all injured or inconvenienced by 

 the treatment. In captivity the food consists almost entirely of 

 chopped hard clams and liver for the young, while hard clams, 

 live killifish and occasional earthworms are given to the large 

 fish. The increase in size with such feeding is remarkable. A 

 brook trout, from Caledonia X. Y., not more than 3 inches long 

 in November 1896, measured 12^ inches in length and 3J inches 

 in depth Dec. 10, 1897. 



A single young brook trout from Caledonia survived in water 

 at 76 F but that temperature was generally fatal to the species. 



Dr Meek has found the trout in small streams on the uplands 

 throughout the Cayuga lake basin. 



Mitchill knew this fish chiefly as an inhabitant of Long Island 

 waters, and has given an interesting account of the fishing at 

 Nichols, Patchogue and Fire Place, where a Mr Bobbins, in 12 

 days in the summer of 1814, caught 190 trout weighing 139 

 pounds, 11 ounces. The largest at Patchogue weighed 2J 

 pounds, the largest at Fire Place, 3 pounds. A Mr Purvis, of 

 New York, caught a trout measuring 24 inches and weighing 4J 

 pounds at Fire Place. 



At that time, according to Mitchill, the trout was " bought 

 at the extravagant price of a quarter of a dollar for a single 

 fish not more than 10 or 12 inches long," and New York anglers 

 traveled " away to Hempstead and Islip for the pleasure of 

 catching and eating him." 



141 Salvelinus alpinus (Linnaeus) 

 Saibling (Introduced) 



Salmo aJpinus LIXNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. X, I, 309, 1758, Lapland, West 



Gothland. 



Salmo salvelinus LINNAEUS, op. et loc. cit. Lintz in Austria. 

 Salmo salmarinus LINNAEUS, op. cit. 310, 1758. 



Salmo umUa LJNNAEUS, op. cit. 310, 1758, Lakes of Switzerland and Italy. 

 Salmo ascanii CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XXI, 256, 1848, 



Norway. 



