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could not have been kept iu the warm Croton water in June. 

 The salt water never rose above 71^ F and continued at this 

 high temperature only 10 days. 



The K Y. Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission planted some 

 of these trout in a Long Island stream and some in a lake in 

 northern New York. Those that were planted on Long Island, 

 says Mr Cheney, when rather more than a year old rose to the 

 fly of the trout fisherman and made a most gallant fight, but it 

 is too early to tell the outcome of the experiment. The eggs 

 are one fifth of an inch in diameter; they hatch in 42 to 50 days 

 with water at 50. 



185 Salmo fario Linnaeus 



Brmon Trout (Introduced) 



t'^almo fario Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. X, I, 30, 1758; Block, Ichth. I, 121, 

 taf. 22, & 157, taf. 23, 1785; Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer. III. 144, 

 pi. 92, fig. 3, A & B, 1836; Day, Fish. Great. Brit. & Ireland, II, 95, 

 plates CIX, fig,. 3, OXIII, CXIV, CXVI, fig.l. 1884; Bean, Fishes Peuna. 

 78, color pi. 6, 1893; Jordan & Evermann, Check-Lit Fish. .\. A. 512. 

 1896. 



Salmo fario ausonii Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VI, 64, 1866. 



Salar ausonii Citvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XXI. 319, pi. 618. 

 1848. 



The brown trout of Europe was introduced into the United 

 States from Germany in February 1883 and in subsequent years; 

 it has now become thoroughly acclimated in the fresh waters of 

 mnuy of the states. 



The body of this ti'out is comparatively short and stout, its 

 greatest dcpih beiug contained about four times in the length 

 wilhoul lilt' caudal. The caudal j^eduncle is short and deep, its 

 <lci.ili ('(|ii;il lo two tifths of the length of the head. The length 

 <>!' Ill*' li'ad ill iKJiilts is one fourth of tlie total leugth without 

 caudal or sligliily h'ss. The diameter of the eye is about one 

 ^f"i "f" III'' Icuglli of tlic head, aud less than lenjith of snou!. 

 TIk- <i<irs;il I'm is pljiccd nearer to llie tiji of the snout lliau Im 

 ''"' ''"' "'' iIk' lail; the longest ray of this fin e(]uals the dis- 

 taiire fi-oiii llie eye io the <mm1 of tile oiiercle. The ventral is 

 under I lie |.i.sleriui- j.arl of the ditrsal; its length is about on.' 

 ':'"' ' ';>" I'l' I li- lie;i(l. Tlie adipose d(rsal is })la(<'d over the end 



