BROOK TROUT 



D. C. Ravenel, of the United States Fish Commission. 

 German trout (s. fario) and Loch Leven trout (j. 

 levenensis) have been introduced from abroad into 

 many locations never before occupied by any of the 

 Salmo family, and are found to thrive. In fine, the 

 brook trout of North America and his congeners, large 

 and small, not only " use " in mountain-streams, but 

 in the wide rivers and lakes, as well as in salty estu- 

 aries, and along the sea-shores. They occupy the 

 whole of British America except the continental mid- 

 way and are included in no less than thirty-nine States 

 and Territories. Trout of some sort are found in the 

 six New England States, New York, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, 

 North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, 

 Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min- 

 nesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, New Mexico, Colo- 

 rado, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, 

 Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, 

 Arizona, Chihuahua, Texas, and Alaska. It is not 

 native to any of those italicized, and is found in very 

 limited portions only of New Jersey, Maryland, South 

 Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Texas. 

 Since a century ago we have discovered and enumer- 

 ated the most of them and, at last, dies gratios ! affixed 

 a nomenclature (more or less trinomial) which it may 

 be hoped will stand as long as men fish and trout 

 swim ; or at least during the lifetime of the present 

 generation. 



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