Brook Trout ; Speckled Trout 



bb. Colour, pale grayish; very few red spots; agass!:{ii, 210 



aa. Back not marbled with darker. 



c. Back with red or orange spots like those on sides; 



parkei, 210 

 cc. Back unspotted, the red spots confined to the sides; maxil- 

 lary usually not reaching beyond the eye. 



d. Gillrakers numerous, 6+12 to 16; head rather large, 4 to 4^ 



in body; body rather stout; belly orange in breeding season. 



e. Gillrakers longer and straighter than in the next, f length of 



eye, 7+14 in number; alipes, 212 



ee. Gillrakers quite short, not \ length of eye, about 6-|-i2 in 



number; aiireolus, 213 



dd. Gillrakers fewer, 6+1 1, small; head small; 4^ to =; in length; 



body slender ; oquassa, 2 1 7 



Brook Trout ; Speckled Trout 



Salvclinus fontinalis (Mitchill) 



"And when the timorous Trout I wait 

 To take, and he devours my Bait, 

 How small, how poor a thing I find 

 Will captivate a greedy Mind; 



And when none bite, the Wise I praise, 

 Whom false Allurement ne'er betrays." 



The game-fish which has been most written about and which 

 is, perhaps, best and most widely known among the anglers of 



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