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giving, with the lighter ground color, a vermiculated appearance to the latter; upper margin 
of fin straw with indistinct spots; pectoral, ventral, anal orange, with first ray white, bordered 
by black within; adipose dusky, tipped with yellow; caudal orange and olive, finely barred with 
wavy marking. 
The small trout (Plate 7) serving as the subject of the illustration of S. fontinalis in this 
paper was an artificially reared fish from a small private pond at Falmouth Foreside, Maine. 
The stock of this pond originated in a highly colored trout occurring in a small private lake 
in Buxton (?), Maine. The trout of tliis lake are frequently of a rich rose madder to carmine 
on their ventral regions. The offspring of this stock in the Falmouth Foreside pond show none 
of the red hues but are of bright yellow tints. This is a good illustration of change of color 
with change of environrhent. 
This trout is described as follows: head, 4.6 in length without caudal; eye, 5.62 in head; 
snout, 3.46; upper jaw, 1.8; lower jaw, 1.73. Body not very robust, the depth 4.81 in length 
wdthout caudal; caudal peduncle comparatively stout, its least depth 1.47 in the distance from 
anal to caudal; dorsal inserted somewhat nearer tip of snout than base of caudal; dorsal rays 
10, the longest equal in length to the length of the dorsal base, considerably longer than anal 
base, and 1.15 in head; distance from adipose to base of caudal considerably greater than base 
of dorsal and not much greater than the least depth of the caudal peduncle; pectoral 1.21 in 
head; the distance of its base from tip of snout slightly greater than length of head; distance 
from base of pectoral to ventral 3.5 in length of body without caudal; distance from tip of snout 
to ventral slightly less than from base of ventral to lower base of caudal; length of ventral, 1.5 
in head; anal rays 8. 
Coloration . — Body dark olive green with lighter vermiculations, the dark color fading into 
brownish olive, then golden brown, then flesh color toward ventral line where it is narrowly 
white. Spots of orange brown, ocelli pale lilac with crimson center; dorsal, color of body, 
paler toward tip, becoming faintly orange yellow, crossed by several irregular dusky wavy bars; 
adipose like back, mottled with lighter dull orange; caudal, color of back along its upper edge, 
mostly deep purplish pink, with black crossbars; lower edge narrowly white, bordered anteriorly 
by a narrow irregular black line; pectoral, anal, and ventral deep pinkish crimson, edged with 
white, with black line between white and crimson. Head, color of back with reflections of 
bronze, gold and green on olive base; iris greenish yellow. 
Specimen 9 inches long. 
Synonymy. 
Salmo fontinalis Mitchill, Samuel L., Report in Part of Samuel L. Mitchill, M. D., Professor of Natural 
History, etc., on the Fishes of New York, p. 12, 1814 (New York Trout). — Storer, D. Humphreys, 
h'ishes of Massachusetts, in Report on the Fishes, Reptiles and Birds of Massachusetts, p. 100, 1839 (The 
Common Brook Trout), “Sandwich” (Salmon Trout); Memoirs Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 6, p. 
322, pi. 25, fig. 3, 1858; A History of the Fishes of Massachusetts, p. 144, pi. 25, fig. 3, 1867 (The Common 
