THE TALE OF THE FISHES 



culture has since added many millions to its ranks. 



The Dublin Pond trout has perplexed the most 

 eminent ichthyologists. It has been classed as a lake 

 trout (nama}^cush) , for its tail is somewhat forked 

 and it attains a weight of 3 to 4 lbs. — as a lissome 

 pattern of the brook trout — as a mere color variation of 

 the same fish — and Agassiz decided that it was an inde- 

 pendent form allied to the deep water charrs of the 

 Swiss lakes, and predicted that it would be found else- 

 where, for he did not believe nature made this beautiful 

 fish for one little pond in New Hampshire. And he 

 was right. The subsequent discovery of Alpine forms 

 justified his assumption. And Dr. W. C. Kendall, of 

 the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, has called my attention 

 to the existence, north of the St. Lawrence, of charrs 

 classified as fontinalis, that are more nearly allied to 

 the ancestral saibling group than to the brook trout — 

 true intermediate congenetic forms that strengthen the 

 induction. Some years ago I described in the Ameri- 

 can Angler one species resembling the Dublin fish in 

 build and coloration, specimens having been sent to me 

 from the Province of Quebec — as pale and opalescent, 

 with furcate tail and hardly visible lemon spots, that 



