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all the fishes I ever caught it was my favorite. Tender 



mouthed, it needed delicate handling, and But 



perhaps the memories of camping with "Dan" Fitzhugh 

 and his guide, Lew Jewell, have something to do with 

 this. A small grayling has not the "magnificent dorsal" 

 which caused Richardson, the naturalist of the Frank- 

 lin expedition, to name the Arctic species T. signifer, 

 the standard bearer; but it has a square fin at first. 

 When the fish is 10 inches long the last rays of the fin 

 prolong and are colored to vie with the tail of a peacock. 



There is a grayling in Montana which Prof. Milner, 

 Rep. U. S. F. C, 1872-73, named T. Montaniis. Dr. 

 James A. Henshall, Superintendent United States Fish- 

 culture Station at Bozeman, Mont., has been breeding 

 this Montana fish. In a paper read by him before the 

 American Fisheries Society, 1898, among other things, 

 he said : 



"Mr. Sprague took some 3,000,000 grayling eggs, 

 1,000,000 of which were hatched and planted in Elk- 

 Creek ; 50,000 eyed eggs were shipped to the Manches- 

 ter (la.) station; 50,000 to the Leadville (Col.) station, 

 and 10,000 to the United States Fish Commission ex- 

 hibit at the Omaha Exposition, all of which, by extra 

 precautions in packing, arrived at their destination in 

 good condition. About 1,500,000 were shipped to the 

 Bozeman station, but many were lost owing to a lack of 

 ice for packing the eyed eggs. Some green eggs were 

 shipped as an experiment, and though seemingly in 

 good condition on arrival at Bozeman, they all died soon 

 afterward. . . . About 500,000 eggs were hatched 

 at the Bozeman station, and at least 50 per cent, of the 

 fry are alive, and most of them are feeding. ... In 

 stripping the female grayling the eggs are a little harder 

 to start, but are then extruded more freely than in the 



