44 FISHING WITH THE FLY. 



I, studying these fish, in their glass tank, did not 

 form this opinion, for Blackford's trout had a broad 

 red band extening from just back of the eye to the tail, 

 covering the operculum, a marking not existing on any 

 of the Edgecomb trout I have seen. But the Professor 

 assures me that " color on the lateral line is not a spe- 

 cific character." On comparing my notes of descrip- 

 tion of these fish, I find that in all other respects they 

 did appear identical, hence that the conclusion arrived 

 at by Prof. Bean, that " the gardneri and the irideus 

 (or rainbow trout of McCloud Eiver), are identical 

 seems well founded. If so, and rny crude supposition 

 that the ClarMi, obtained in Piseco Lake near Sitka 

 are also identical with the gardneri turns out to be 

 correct, there can be a condensation of nomenclature, 

 which will lead to at least one valuable result from this 

 paper. 



