THE BROOK TROUT 



distinguishable from nitidus, and the earlier 

 name of this rare fish is entitled to prevail 

 if they are identical. Note, however, that 

 the marstoni of the Cassette lakes show, in 

 photograph, very distinct spots, of which 

 the Malbaie trout have no trace. The Mal- 

 baie trout is purely lacustrine, quite with- 

 out the anadromous instinct which fontin- 

 alis, using the word anadromous in the 

 broadest sense, never wholly loses. That 

 there is something of an open question with 

 regard to the Malbaie trout appears suffici- 

 ently from the fact that three sets of author- 

 ities — each a shade more authoritative 

 than the last — have all placed it differently. 

 These provisional statements should be 

 safe-guarded by the remarks that there are 

 fish now known, on behalf of which un- 

 adjudicated claims are outstanding, and that 

 our innumerable unfished waters are almost 

 certain to yield new species and variants. 



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