THE GAME PISHES OF THE WOELD 



gemmed with the fire of rubies ; in another, darting in Uttle companies, 

 the pencilled margins of their fins seeming to trail behind them Uke white 

 ribbons under the ripples. There are conspicuous differences in intensity 

 of general coloration, and the gaudy dyes of the milter are tempered in the 

 spawner to a dead-lustre cadmium cream or ohve chrome, with opal spots. 

 The wedding garment nature has given to this charr is unparagoned. 

 Those who have seen the bridal march of the glistening hordes, in all their 

 glory of colour and majesty of action, pronounce it a spectacle never to be 

 forgotten.' 



In Dublin Pond, ISew Hampshire, is found a charr, S. agassizi, 

 which from its colour is named the gray trout. It has few if any 

 red spots and is an interesting little fish. I have taken the brook- 

 trout, fontinalis, in California in the head waters of Feather 

 Eiver, but it had been introduced, there being but one charr on 

 the Pacific coast, the Dolly Varden, S. malma, almost a replica of 

 fontinalis. Its home is to the west of the Eocky Mountains, 

 where the sun drops into the night, in the clear streams of 

 Northern California, Oregon, and Washington, and far north to 

 British Columbia, Alaska, and even in Kamchatka and the 

 Kurile Islands. 



In the north it appears to have taken to the sea, and in Puget 

 Sound and Alaska grows to a large size, specimens weighing ten 

 pounds having been taken. It appears to be a fontinalis, but 

 long and slender, in shape resembling a steelhead. It has red 

 spots on the back and side, but not the marbUngs and blotches 

 of the fontinalis, and also its game qualities. It is despised by the 

 Alaskans as it devours the eggs of the salmon. 



The Dolly Varden obtained its name in the following way : 

 Dr. Jordan and Professor Spencer F. Baird were at Soda Springs, 

 Mount Shasta, on the Sacramento, when a beautiful specimen of 

 this trout was brought in, glowing with colours. The landlady, 

 struck Tvith its charms, said, ' Why, it's a regular Dolly Varden ! ' 

 Professor Baird said to Dr. Jordan, ' Why not call it the Dolly 

 Varden trout ? ' So Dolly Varden it is, and a very good name, 

 and the fish one of the best of the charrs. 



The Dolly Varden may be taken in the McCloud and the 

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