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KENDALL: NEW ENGLAND CHARRS. 
In Salmon and Trout, by Dean Sage and others, published in 1902, William C. Harris 
wrote that the Dublin Pond Trout of New England waters {“ Salvelinus fontinalis agassizii”) 
is similar in structure to the Brook Trout {“ fonlinalis”) but differs in coloration, being pale 
grayish and almost without red spots, thus resembling the Lake Trout or togue. It is found 
mainly in Dublin and Center Ponds in New Hampshire. He further stated that Mr. A. H. 
Thayer, a resident angler, writes that the young fish are “as beautiful as a bar of mother-of- 
pearl. The adult fish living in deep water are much darker with more brilliant red spots.” 
During the last part of October, 1912, the present writer made a visit to Monadnock Lake. 
Mr. James DeRocher, of the Nashua Fisheries Station was detailed to assist in the effort to 
secure specimens of the trout and Mr. Walter H. Rich accompanied the party in order to make a 
colored drawing of the fish from life should any be secured. Expectations were not very high, 
however, owing to the lateness of the season, the stated spawning time being about October 20. 
Mr. DeRocher was supplied with two gill-nets, each 100 feet long, of different-sized mesh, 
the larger perhaps two inches and the smaller of one inch, stretched. On the night of the 29th, 
these nets were set on “the reef,” said to be the spawning grounds of the fish, and in about two 
to four feet of water. Previous to setting the net some small fish were observed close to shore 
which from their shape were thought to be trout. In the small-meshed net ten small trout 
were caught, one and two at a time at intervals, and in the large-meshed net which permitted 
the small fish to pass through one large trout was taken. These were kept in an extemporized 
live car until the next morning when Mr. Rich made color sketches of the large specimen and 
two of the smaller ones. During the fishing the party was favored by some visitors, one of 
whom was Mrs. Grenville Clark, formerly Miss Dwight, to whom in the foregoing quotation 
Mr. A. Nelson Cheney referred as one very familiar with the trout of this lake. The present 
writer is also indebted to Mrs. Clark for much interesting and valuable information concerning 
the trout. Mr. A. D. Mason, of Dublin, who from boyhood has had an intimate acquaintance 
with the trout and its habits and possesses a traditional knowledge of the lake and its early 
conditions, furnished much valuable information. 
The descriptions inunediately following are from specimens secured at the time of this 
visit to Monadnock Lake. 
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Descriptions of Recent Specimens of Salvelinus agassizii. 
Male. — Head, 4.13 in length without caudal; eye, 7 in head; snout, 3.25; upper jaw, 1.54; 
lower jaw, 1.30, somewhat hooked; branchiostegals, 11/11; gill-rakers 5-|-8 and 5-f9; no bran- 
chiostegal teeth. Body moderately deep, the greatest depth 3.52 in length without caudal; cau- 
dal peduncle slender, as in S. aureolus; dorsal slightly nearer tip of snout than base of caudal; 
dorsal rays II, 10, the longest 1.15 in its base and 2.27 in head; distance from adipose to base of 
