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KENDALL: NEW ENGLAND CHARRS. 
In this note Dr. Jordan briefly but quite positively reiterates his former conclusion that the 
fish is a mere color variety of S. fontinalis. 
“9. Salmo agassizi. The trout of Dublin Pond has been known to me for many years. 
It is obviou.sly a local color-variation of S. fontinalis. It may be called, in current nomenclature, 
Salvelinus fontinalis agassizi.” 
Regarding the fish, nothing further appears to have been printed until 1889, when an article 
or supplement on “The Red Trout of New England,” by Dr. Bean was published in Shooting 
and Fishing, and later in the New Hampshire Fish and Game Commission Report (see 
synonymy). In this article he recognizes it, by name at least, as a distinct species. This 
was the first recognition of it after Garman described it and even Garman himself stated that 
it was a variety of the Common Brook Trout. 
Dr. Bean’s decision, however, seems to have left no impression on the minds of ichthy- 
ologists subsequently referring to or cataloguing the fish. It continued to be considered a 
variety or subspecies of Salvelinus fontinalis until Jordan and Evermann accepted it as a dis- 
tinct species in their Food and Game Fishes of North America. 
Descriptions. 
1849. — Bigelow (1. c.) : The description is evidently, at least partly, from memory, but, 
although in some respects vague, it applies in general to this species. It has already been 
quoted and need not be repeated here. 
1872. — Hatch: The color description already quoted is very exact in most respects. 
1884. — Bean (1. c.): “It is a Salvelinus without hyoid teeth. The gill-rakers are fifteen 
to sixteen in number; there are about 115 tubes in the lateral line, the number of rows of scales, 
of course, being much greater. The eye equals the snout in length, and is contained four and 
one-half times in the length of the head. The maxilla reaches a little beyond the vertical 
from the posterior margin of the orbit, and is nearly one-half as long as the head. The origin 
of the dorsal is nearly midway between the tip of the snout and the root of the upper caudal lobe. 
The length of the pectoral is one-sixth of the total without caudal. Dorsal ten; anal ten. 
Coloration silvery-gray on the upper parts, whitish below; pectorals, ventrals, and anal, largely 
vermilion; vermilion spots on the sides few in number.” 
In this description there is little given besides color to distinguish the fish from the 
Common Trout. The first statement, that it is a Salvelinus “without hyoid teeth” would 
seem to establish it as S. fontinalis, so far as that character is concerned. 
1885. — Garman (1. c.): “B., 11 to 13; D., 12 to 13; A., 10 to 12; V., 8 to 9; P., 14 to 15; 
pores, 109 to 119; scales, 38 to 42, 217 to 237, 38 to 42; second dorsal to lateral line, 28. 
“Snout longer than eye; maxillary extending behind orbit; in young (fig. 17) the diameter 
