12 TROUT LORE 



Middle West dreaming an idle hour away. 

 While sitting there partially concealed by the 

 shrubbery, a pelican alighted on the beach just 

 below me and proceeded to empty his "bread 

 basket" preparatory to a meal. Thinking that 

 some of the disgorged fish showed signs of life, 

 I rushed out upon the ungainly bird and fright- 

 ened him from his repast. Imagine my surprise 

 when I discovered two live fish, both of them 

 yellow perch, and one dead fish, a speckled trout, 

 which had not long been dead. Where the bird 

 found the trout I can not imagine, for I knew 

 of no trout streams in that region. Now, had 

 the live fish been the trout, a pair, and had they 

 flopped into the water Yes, I think the peli- 

 can plays a greater part in the economy of nature 

 as a fish car than we have imagined. 1 



While upon the distribution of trout it might 

 be well to spend a little time discussing the ad- 

 visability of the indiscriminate planting of rain- 

 bow and brown trout in water inhabited by and 

 adapted to the eastern variety. Now I know 

 that many eminent authorities disagree with me, 

 saying that rainbow in captivity are not so much 



i Somewhere T have read a scientific dissertation upon this ques- 

 tion, but I can not find it, and readers of these articles will con- 

 fer a great favor upon the writer if they will inform him where 

 such matter may be obtained. 



