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larger and more gaudy than the usual trout flies, and 

 ordinarily were sufficiently taking in character ; but, on 

 very bright days, when the water was low and clear, we ' 

 found that the flies used by us on the Beaver Kill, and 

 Neversink, in Sullivan County, New York, were better. 

 The largest trout taken by us on this bout four and 

 one-quarter pounds was hooked with a stone fly made 

 by Pritchard Brothers, of New York, for use on those 

 streams. On one occasion, I took at one cast, and 

 landed safely, two trout, weighing three pounds and 

 one-quarter, and one and three-quarters pounds, re- 

 spectively, upon one of the said stone flies and a medium- 

 sized gray hackle. 



In conclusion of this part of my article, I will say 

 that, for the reasons above given, I have no doubt but 

 that the Canada sea-trout are anadromous brook trout, 

 and that they should be classed with the salmo fonti- 

 nalis, or, if preferred, salvelinus fontinalis. 



The trout in question come up the St. Lawrence from 

 the ocean in large numbers, and file off, probably in ac- 

 cordance with the instinct of anadromous fishes, to the 

 streams in which they were severally hatched. The de- 

 tachment for our stream reaches it invariably in the 

 first days of August. " When once fairly in the current " 

 (I quote from Mr. Macdonough's paper), "their move- 

 ments up-stream are very rapid. Passionless and almost 

 sexless, as the mode of the nuptials they are on their 

 way to complete may seem to more highly organized 

 beings, they drive with headlong eagerness through tor- 



