BROOK TROUT. 
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Synonymy. 
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Salmo agassizii Carman, S., Nineteenth Annual Report of the [Mass.] Commissioners of Inland Fisheries, 
p. 78, figs. 17, 18 (young; adult; outlines), 1885. 
Salvelinus agassizii Jordan, D. S., and Evermann, B. W., American Food and Game Fishes, p. 210, 1902. — 
Kendall, W. C., “Fauna of New England, List of the Pisces,” Occasional Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 
vol. 7, no. 8, p. 46, 1908. 
Salvelinus agassizi Bean, T. H., Shooting and Fishing, vol. 5, no. 11, p. 7, fig. 3, Jan. 10, 1889, and Report 
Fish and Game Comm. New Hampshire, appendi.x, p. 32, fig., 1889. 
Salvelinus fontinalis agassizi Jordan, D. S., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 8, p. 82, 1885. — Jordan, D. S., and 
Evermann, B. W., Report U. S. Commissioner of FLsh and Ksheries for 1895, p. 293, 1896 (Check List); 
and Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 47, part 1, p. 507, 1896. 
Salmo fontinalis Bigelow, S. L., Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 49, 1850. 
{Salmof) fontinalis, var., Jordan, D. S., Forest and Stream, vol. 10, p. 196, April 18, 1878. 
Salvelinus fontinalis Bean, T. H., Forest and Stream, vol. 12, p. 229, April 17, 1884; Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 
vol. 4, p. 293, 1884. 
Salmo symmetrica, var., Baird, S. F., Report U. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1872 and 1873, p. 
372, 1874. 
Brook Trout. 
Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill). 
Plate 7, Fig. 11. 
This charr is peculiar to eastern North America. Its northern limit is indefinitely known. 
It occurs in many Canadian streams flowing into the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River and 
Gulf and as far north, at least, as Hamilton Inlet on the Labrador coast. The Hudson Bay 
records may be a mistake from confusion with another species. The Atlantic Ocean restricts 
it on the east and it extends southward in the Alleghanies to the headwaters of streams in the 
mountains of Georgia and Alabama. 
Aboriginally it was common throughout the New England States, especially in the northern 
sections, and in Maine there was scarcely a stream from the merest rivulet to the mightiest 
river, from the smallest pond to the largest lake, that did not abound with trout, from adult 
pigmies of an ounce or two to fish of ten pounds or more of weight, according to the waters. 
In general the trout is by nature a denizen of cool waters but not infrequently it occurs in 
unfavorable places such as warm, muddy ponds. But in such instances there is usually, per- 
haps always, some “spring hole” or cool inflowing spring brook to which it resorts during the 
summer months. From such places it first disappears and there are many waters in New Eng- 
land that once contained trout but are now exhausted. In fact such depletion is not confined 
