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KENDALL: NEW ENGLAND CHARRS. 
“I see in your issue of March 13 a piece headed ‘A Peculiar Fish,’ and, as there has been 
much discussion as regards it, I want to add my mite. I have for years lived near and fished 
these waters, and think the description of the fish far from right. Last fall I obtained permis- 
sion from the State Conunissioners to take fifty of these fish for the purpose of stocking Stone 
Pond. I caught two distinct varieties of trout; one very light-colored, slim and silvery, the 
other, to all appearances, was a common brook trout, being dark, with very bright spots, and 
much the heavier in proportion to. the length, the same length of the latter weighing one-third 
more than the former. There is no stream, how'ever small, flowing into this lake, as it is entirely 
fed by springs. Only the common brook trout are found in the outlet of the lake. The right 
to fish this lake is claimed on the ground that it is a lake, and the strange fish is a lake trout 
for this reason. It is called in the Dublin history Monadnock Lake, and also Monadnock Lake 
on the county maps. It is called by many here Dublin Pond. The question is, is it a lake or a 
pond? Last fall both kinds of trout spawned on the same bed, but what I term brook trout 
were about fourteen days later than the others, and did not come until the others had left» 
'Fish Warden.’ 
“Marlboro, N. H., March 17. 
“[The differences mentioned are not of themselves sufficient to establish two species. 
Shape and color amount to little or nothing in the salmon family We cannot say that 
the fish in question is not a distinct species, but evidence from an ichthyologist is first needed 
to prove it ]” 
Pursuant of the advice of the Forest and Stream, an appeal for a decision, accompanied 
by specimens, was submitted to Professor Baird who referred them to Dr. T. H. Bean, at that 
time Cxirator of Fishes in the United States National Museum. Dr. Bean reported to Professor 
Baird as follows: 
“After a careful examination of the individuals received from Mr. Greenwood, I arrived 
at the conclusion that they are the common brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, differing in no 
respects, so far as I can see, from the usual type of the species, excepting in their pale coloration 
and few vermilion spots — variations which I have frequently observed in trout from widely 
different localities.” 
This report was accompanied by a brief enumeration of the anatomical characters and 
proportions most commonly used in fish descriptions. This description is quoted later in this 
paper. 
In the Report of the Fish and Game Commissioners of New Hampshire for the year 1884, 
at page 7, the following article on the “Dublin Trout” appears. 
“Quite an interest has been taken in this trout, whose home is in Monadnock Lake. They 
differ somewhat from any other trout in the waters of this state. By some it is claimed that 
they are a lake trout, and can be taken by single hook and line in the months of January, Feb- 
