272 The Trouts of America 



Albans in her quaint old English, and poetically 

 by Ausonius in the sixth century. It is the old- 

 est and best-known salmon-trout of the Eastern 

 Hemisphere, for there is hardly a county in Eng- 

 land without its trout stream, and it is well dis- 

 tributed over Scotland and Ireland and the waters 

 of the Continent. 



The brown trout has lost popularity among 

 numbers of American fishing clubs and anglers 

 because of its rapid growth, large size, and 

 consequent ability and inclination to devastate 

 waters in which our smaller trouts live. Being 

 able to exist and thrive in waters of a higher 

 temperature than is adapted to other trouts, they 

 should never be placed in streams which the latter 

 inhabit. True, most, if not all, of our native 

 salmonoids are cannibals, in fresh or salt water; 

 but owing to the size of the brown trouts and the 

 practice of putting them in comparatively small 

 and shallow trout streams, where they can ravage 

 at will on fontincUis, planting of them should be 

 discountenanced and discontinued. One club, the 

 Castalia of Ohio, owning the grandest trout stream 

 in America, finding that the introduced brown 

 trout was destroying the Eastern red-spotted 

 charr (fontinalis), used, and may still be using, 



