THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 9 
that the fish is strongly suspected to be a salmon. There is no 
difference that an ichthyologist can find between the Salmo tridea 
and the salmon known as ‘steelhead,’ ‘hardhead,’ and ‘salmon 
trout’ on the Pacific coast, the Salmo gairdnert. Although this is 
the case, and the species zvzdea is a doubtful one, yet it has been 
thought best not to combine them for the present. We have 
been waiting and watching the habits of this alleged trout with 
great interest in order to learn if its habits might not show it to 
be in some respect different from the steelhead. The evidence 
of the Commission tend to show that it isa migratory fish, and 
if so it may escape to sea and be lost, as the other California 
salmon was. We believe that Mr. Roosevelt has not seen the 
rainbows which he planted in streams emptying into the Great 
South Bay, Long Island, since they were yearlings.” 
If this fish has to be confined by screens to prevent its migrat- 
ing and perhaps entirely disappearing, as the quinnat salmon 
did, then it will be useless in our open brooks. The promise of 
the rainbow trout was that in it we had a quick growing fish, 
which was not as sensitive to warm water as our own /fontinalts, 
a desideratum which now promises to be filled by the brook 
trout of Europe, Salmo fario. 1 would here call the attention of 
the Association to some specimens of this fish, which jumped 
out of the ponds last October, when they were six months old, 
They are, as you see, full six inches long, and are plump, hand- 
some and finely formed. The eggs from which they came were 
. sent to me as a personal present last year by Herr von Behr, 
President of the Deutschen Fischerei Verein, one of the most 
earnest and enthusiastic fish-culturists in the world. Two 
varieties were sent, one from the deep waters where they grow 
large, as in our Maine lakes, and the other from the swift mount- 
ain streams of the Upper Rhine, where they are smaller. This 
year he has repeated his gift by sending some to the United 
States Fish Commission, in my care, and some to Mr. E. G. 
Blackford, Commissioner for New York. Last year, when the 
fish were sent to me personally, I gave some of them to Mr. F. 
N. Clark, Superintendent of the U. S. station at Northville, 
Mich., and to Mr. M. A. Green, of the New York station at 
Caledonia, Both report them as doing well. 
