THE HABITS OF THE TROUT. 



MOST prominent among the trouts — in fact, 

 of any of the American fishes which the 

 anglers of this country prize as a quarry — is 

 the brook or red-spotted trout, Salvelinus 

 fontinalis. These technical appellatives are derived 

 from Salvelinus, said to be the old name of the char, 

 and fontinalis, "living in springs." Unlike many 

 other game fishes, it has but few common or popular 

 names and is known among anglers simply as the 

 " brook, speckled or red-spotted trout." 



It is a pure char and the most beautiful of our 

 fresh-water fauna, the more so from the mantle of rose 



