Pigares of Pisfyes in Colore. 



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HE first report of the Fisheries, Game 

 and Forest Commission — namely, for 

 the year ending September 30, 1895, — 

 contained figures of some of the fishes of the 

 State in colors, reproduced from drawings of 

 the fishes themselves by Sherman F. Denton, 

 an artist eminent in this particular field. The 

 fishes selected to be presented in the first 

 volume were the brook trout, a breeding male; 

 the Atlantic salmon, the whitefish, the small- 

 mouth black bass, the large-mouth black bass, 

 the pike-perch, the mascalonge, the pike, the 

 pickerel, two figures showing different marking; 

 the shad, the rainbow trout, the brown trout, 

 and the smelt. In the next report, the Com- 

 mission decided to continue the colored illus- 

 trations of fishes, as an educative feature of the 

 printed book, as the demand for the first volume 

 far exceeded the supply, although the Legisla- 

 ture had ordered an extra number of the books. 

 This demand was traceable, in great part, to the 

 colored plates, and it was decided by the Com- 

 mission to include all the fishes hatched by the 

 State, and others of the more common fishes 

 from both fresh and salt water. In the printed 

 report for the year ending September 30, 1896, 

 it was found necessary to reproduce the male brook trout and the pike-perch, as the 

 specific requests for the pictures of these particular fishes had been most numerous, 

 and in addition the female brook trout, the male Sunapee trout, the female Sunapee 

 trout, the male landlocked salmon, the female landlocked salmon, the lake trout 

 and the Adirondack frostfish were added. The first report had the colored figures of 

 but one game-bird, and others were added in the second report, and it was decided to 

 include a number of figures of the better-known game-birds in each volume. In the 

 report for the year ending September 30, 1897, the figures of fishes included the cisco 



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