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(2) The eggs are deposited at the time of year when freshets are un- 
known, when the spawning beds are protected by surface ice, and the 
eggs are placed out of danger. 
(3) The fontinalis is very wary, and has learned for generations to 
look out for pins and fish-hooks, so that it generally requires some skill 
to catch this species. 
(4) It is a much better table -fish than the Rocky Mountain trout. 
My fish ponds are at Manitou Park, 25 miles northwest of Manitou, 
up the Ute Pass, where I have a large hatching house by a very fine 
spring, several ponds, an artificial lake of 30 acres, and 12 miles of trout 
stream, formerly famous for the western trout, but quite denuded of 
them when I commenced to preserve. 
Two years in succession, 1874 and 1875, 1 got 100,000 eggs of the fontina- 
lis from Seth Green, and hatched them without difficulty. After that we 
•had our own fish to spawn, and have spawned them each winter. The 
streams running through the park are now well stocked with fontinalis , 
and also the lake, which is situated at the lower end of the stream 1 
preserve. They live at peace with the western fish, and don’t fight with 
them even when confined in small ponds. They are quite healthy. In 
watching both kinds together you always find the fontinalis below and 
the virginalis above, each kind keeping together and not mixing up. 
[William A. Bell, Colorado Springs, Colo.] 
Rainbow trout in Virginia. — W. C. Pendleton, clerk of the 
supreme court of Virginia, at Marion, Va., wrote to Col. M. McDonald, 
under date of April 12, 1887, as follows: “This morning a rainbow 
trout was caught in Staley’s Creek, in the corporate limits of Marion, 
that measured 22 inches in length and weighed 4 pounds.” This stream 
was first stocked with the fry of the rainbow trout in 1883. A num- 
ber of others of this species have been taken in the same stream and 
heretofore reported. 
Rainbow trout in England.— The Journal of the National Fish 
Culture Association of England (January 15, 1887) contains an article 
on rainbow trout by W. Oldham Chambers, from which are taken the 
following extracts : 
“ We have a fair number of these fish, weighing about three-quarters of 
a pound each, at the establishment of the National Fish Culture Associa- 
tion, which are nearly two years old, and were obtained from ova for- 
warded by the American Government. They were incubated at South 
Kensington, and the fry were transferred to their present location ; but, 
owing to the lateness of the season at which the ova were received, some 
difficulty was occasioned in rearing them. On being well established in 
suitable ponds they grew rapidly, insomuch that at the end of eighteen 
months they far outstripped in size the Salvelinus fontinalis, which, be- 
sides being a fast-growing fish, emerges from the ova three months earlier 
than the Salmo irideus . After the two years’ experience I have had of the 
latter, I unhesitatingly pronounce them to be superior to our own spe- 
