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States Fish Commission, entitled "Brown Trout in 

 America" : 



"Injuly, 1886, Mr. Frank J. Amsden, a banker, of 

 Rochester, N. Y., sent to Mr. E. G. Blackford, of Ful- 

 ton Market, a brown trout which weighed, on its re- 

 ceipt, three pounds. It was taken in Allen's Creek, 

 Monroe County, New York, a tributary of the Genesee 

 River, which receives the famous Caledonia Creek, on 

 which the hatchery of the New York Fish Commission 

 at Mumford is placed. This fish must have been one 

 which was hatched at the Caledonia station in March, 

 1883, from eggs sent there by me. These eggs were 

 the first which were received in America, and came to 

 me as a personal present from my friend, Mr. von Behr, 

 President of the Deutscher Fischerei-Verein, whose 

 headquarters are in Berlin, and consequently the fish 

 was about three years and three months old. 



"At the time that these eggs were sent from Germany 

 Mr. von Behr advised me that there were two kinds of 

 them, not species, nor even varieties, but merely from 

 different waters. One kind, the larger eggs, were from 

 trout inhabiting deep lakes, while the smaller kind were 

 from th©. mountain streams. These kinds are probably 

 analogous in respect of size to the'fontinalis of the 

 Rangeley Lakes of Maine and those of our other east- 

 ern American waters, as near as I understand the case. 

 I sent to the Caledonia station eggs of both kinds, and 

 this fish, which was taken in Allen's Creek, is probably 

 one that escaped from the hatchery, unless a plant had 

 been made in the creek. 



"In the ponds under my charge at Cold Spring Har- 

 bor, we reserved some of these first importations, but 

 lost the greater portion of them from various causes. 

 Of the few that were left there was one which was 



