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KENDALL: NEW ENGLAND CHARES. 
Habitat. 
Garman (1885) said it had the appearance of a deep-water species, and such it proved 
to be. 
Bigelow stated that they remain in deep water about the center of the pond during the 
entire year except in spawning season. Miss Dwight informed Mr. Cheney (1. c.) that when 
the ice left the lake the trout were caught in water from 80 to 100 feet deep, but two or three 
weeks after the ice goes out the trout come to the surface. 
Mr. Thayer told Mr. Harris (1. c.) that they came to the surface and into shallow water 
from May 20 to June 10. “This early summer rise to the surface,” Mr. Harris wTote, “and 
their sudden disappearance on or about the tenth day of June is strikingly similar to the habit 
shown by the cisco, or lake herring, which is also one of the salmonoids.” 
In a letter to Dr. B. W. Evermann, of the Bureau of Fisheries, Mr. W. 0. Robinson wrote, 
under recent date, that for a period of about ten days in the spring, generally commencing with 
the 10th of May, the trout leave the deep water and come to the surface, rising freely in the 
morning till nine o’clock and again from five o’clock till dark. In the fall of 1912, and in a 
recent letter to the present writer, Mr. A. D. Mason, of Dublin, N. H., of many years’ familiarity 
with the trout, said that they evidently frequented deep water most of the time except in the 
month of May when they rise to the surface for the little black fly. At this time, early in the 
morning and toward night they are jumping all the time. But after warm weather comes on 
and the black flies depart the fish retire to deep water. 
Breeding Habits. 
Bigelow stated (1. c.) that the breeding time, which lasted about two or three weeks, began 
about the first of October when the fish congregated on shoals, formerly on the south but at 
the time of his visit, on the southwest shore, where they spawned at night. Having reached 
the beds, he said, they lose their natural shyness and seem wholly absorbed in the object of their 
visit. If frightened they did not go far away and soon returned. The males followed the 
females very closely in about the proportion of one male to four females. 
Mr. Hatch {1. c.) stated that they sought the shoals for spawning in October. In Forest 
and Stream, (1. c.) a person signing himself “Fishwarden” wrote that both kinds of trout 
spawned on the same beds, but that the Brook Trout were about fourteen days later than the 
others, and did not come until the others had left. 
Mr. Robinson wrote (Z. c.) that they gather on the spawning bed at the same time as the 
other trout. 
