The BrooK Troxit Incognito 95 



copper-color brook trout that, having access to salt 

 water, gormandizes upon the multitudinous food of the 

 sea shrimp, killifish, spearing, spawn, crab, etc. 

 and the tiny, active, silvery albinolike brook trout 

 that is locked in a small foamy basin under a dashing 

 waterfall, feeding only upon minute Crustacea and the 

 insect life that is carried to its watery prison. These 

 two specimens are not freakish individuals of their 

 species like the blunt-nose specimen and the various 

 other deformities but are quite common contrasting 

 representatives of their tribe. 



If we were to display in a group side by side one of 

 each of the shape-and-color-differing specimens one 

 large copper-shade, sea-going brook trout, one tiny 

 silvery, fountain-locked brook trout, one ordinary- 

 environed brook trout, one blunt-nose brook trout, 

 etc. the fact of their being of an identical species 

 would be correctly appreciated by the scientific man 

 only. 



I am not resorting to poetic license or theorizing 

 or delving into ancient precedents to carry my point 

 of natural history, for I once captured one of the big, 

 sea-going specimens, and my friend, James Cornell, 

 angling in an adjacent stream the same day, brought 

 to creel a little silvery beauty of the foamy waterfall. 

 Shape, form, tint, weight every mood and trait 

 were of astounding contrast in these two specimens, 

 yet both were of the same species, the true brook 

 trout ; my dark, strenuous three-pounder taken in the 

 open, brackish creek as I cast from the salt meadow- 

 land sod banks, and Cornell's albinolike gamester suc- 

 cumbing to the fly in the foamy fountain of a deep 

 woodland brook; both specimens widely separated in 

 appearance, habits, and habitat, but still both legiti- 



