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mainly in search of a change in food; the sea-going 

 trout of large rivers are impelled to leave their fresh 

 water retreats for the ocean waters also to satisfy a 

 desire for new varieties of food, but more so because 

 of an instinct that warns them of the danger of re- 

 maining in the fresh- water rivers during certain periods 

 of the year the coldest seasons when the waters 

 freeze to the river bottom, and in the melting time, 

 when the ice thaws into huge sharp-edge chunks, and 

 the mass of ice, swift-running water, and rocks turn the 

 rivers into raging, roaring floods that would cut and 

 bruise the trout unmercifully. 



Nature makes these large-river brook trout in the 

 calm periods of spring, summer, and autumn, and sea 

 trout in severe winter weather and during dangerous 

 flood time. 



The broad streams of the west coast of Newfound- 

 land Fishels River, Crabs River, Big and Little 

 Codroy Rivers, Big and Little Barachois Rivers, and 

 Robinson's River afford the best evidence of trout 

 migrating to the sea to escape the fury of the flood, and 

 any of the little trout streams in any part of the world 

 where the streams flow into salt water will afford the 

 student means of observing the trout's fondness for 

 marine excursions in search of a change of diet. 



Just as the different species of trout are widely 

 contrasting in colors, shapes, sizes, traits, etc., while 

 in their natural habitat fresh water so are they 

 confoundingly different in these matters while so- 

 journing in salt water. 



The true brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is of 

 various shades, shapes and sizes, these depending 

 upon the character of the water he inhabits. In 

 shallow, swift streams of a light color pebble bottom 



