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1. Has the rainbow trout become established in any 

 eastern coast rivers ; i. e., to breed freely in a wild state ? 



2. Has it been good friends with the other trout, or 

 has it taken so much interest in them as to eat 'em up ? 



3. Does it rise well and freely to the fly ? 



4. Does it stop in the rivers where planted ? 



5. Is it better than salmon to eat? 



To this I answered as far as my knowledge of the 

 fish went, and in his issue of August 27, 1898, he print- 

 ed the following from my pen : 



''You evidently want a monograph on S. irideus, but 

 I am not competent to write it, for Pve never fished 

 west of the Rockies, and do not know this fish in its 

 native waters. A review of your questions shows that 

 you only want to know about it in the east, and I'll try 

 to answer. 



"i. Not that I know of . The rainbow has been bred 

 in the State of New York for about twenty-four years. 

 Most of my books are in storage, and I must not try to 

 give exact dates, but it was about 1873 or 1874 that 

 Seth Green took young shad to California and then 

 introduced the rainbow trout in the east. He turned 

 them out indiscriminately, and I stocked many streams 

 with them as a superintendent under orders from the 

 Board of Fish Commissioners of the State, but I do 

 not know of a stream where they have become estab- 

 lished, in the sense that you mean. Adults are caught 

 here and there, but I do not know of a stream in which 

 they have sustained themselves; but their propagation 

 goes on. They have been planted in the State of New 

 York, from the cold mountainous lakes of the Adirdn- 

 dacks to the most southern streams of Long Island. I 

 will refer to this question again, after the others are 

 answered categorically. 



