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do not seem to be fitted to this most beautiful 

 fish, nor have attempts to acclimatise the equally 

 beautiful Sabiio irideus, the rainbow trout, in rivers 

 been successful. Two cases only oi fontinalis and 

 irideus being taken by anglers in south of England 

 streams have been brought to my notice. The 

 Duke of Bedford favours me with a statement to 

 the effect that hoi\\fo?itinalis and irideus have been 

 taken with the artificial fly on the Chess in Buck- 

 inghamshire, a most interesting fact.^ The second 

 instance is not quite so satisfactory, since my 

 informant says he cannot be absolutely sure of the 

 species of the fish he took from the head waters 

 of the Lea ; but he believed, and still believes, that 

 the trout from its great brilliancy and dissimilarity 

 from the Lea fish and from Loch Levens could 

 have been no other than a char. 



Trout culture may, I suppose, be almost described 

 as still in its infancy in this country, and it is 

 practically only within the last thirty years or so 

 that much alteration has been paid to it for angling 

 purposes. We are believed to be considerably 

 behind the Germans as pisciculturists, and to lose 

 far more young fish than they do during the pro- 

 cess of rearing. But if trout fishing continues to 

 increase in favour as it has been doing during 

 within the last twenty-five years or so, the rearing 

 of fish is sure to become more and more general 

 and to make strides. Some carefully preserved 

 private waters of the south like the Chess, where 

 the conditions are excellent for spawning, where 

 there are no pike, and where anglers do not swarm, 

 need no re-stocking ; and in such waters it might 



1 1 have vayseM C2iugh.\. fontinalis in the Chess. — Ed. 



