THE HABITS OF THE TROUT. 



MOST prominent among the trouts — in fact, 

 of any of the American fishes which the 

 anglers of this country prize as a quarry — is 

 the brook or red-spotted trout, Salvelinus 

 fontinalis. These technical appellatives are derived 

 from Salvelinus, said to be the old name of the char, 

 and fontinalis, " living in springs." Unlike many 

 other game fishes, it has but few common or popular 

 names and is known among anglers simply as the 

 " brook, speckled or red-spotted trout." 



It is a pure char and the most beautiful of our 

 fresh-water fauna, the more so from the mantle of rose 



