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suiting from long familiarity with brook-trout, gained 

 by thirty-five years of angling for them, my acquaint- 

 ance with the sea-trout of Long Island, and those found 

 in Canadian waters. In regard to the markings of the 

 fish immediatelg after migrating from salt to fresh water 

 it is unnecessary to say more, except that the vermicu- 

 lar marks differ somewhat in different fish. Some that 

 I caught and examined closely had, as Scott says, " ver- 

 miculate marks on the back very plain and distinct." 

 And on others, as Norris writes, " the markings on the 

 back were lighter and not so vermiculated in form, but 

 resembling more the broken segments of a circle." The 

 fish in this respect differ from each other far less than 

 often do brook trout, taken from the same pool. Nor- 

 ris thinks the sea- trout more slender in form than the 

 brook-trout until the former attains the weight of two 

 pounds. I have not been able to discover this differ- 

 ence between sea- trout and the brook-trout taken from 

 the waters of this State. The trout of Rangeley Lake, 

 and waters adjacent in Maine (I assume, as I believe, 

 they are genuine brook trout), are thicker and shorter 

 than trout of the same weight caught in the State of 

 New York, or the Canadian sea-trout. I have two 

 careful and accurate drawings one of a sea-trout which 

 weighed four and one-quarter pounds, and measured 

 twenty-two and one-half inches in length, and five and 

 one- eighth inches in depth the other of a Eangeley 

 trout that weighed eight pounds, and measured twenty- 

 six inches in length, and eight and a half inches in 



