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as were still there that could live more than three 
or four years longer. 
So far there has been little indication that any 
of the trout caught have been cannibals — probably 
because they can obtain plenty of other food, and 
since their transfer to the loch have not been 
in the hungry condition in which they certainly 
were when they lived in the burns. On one occa- 
sion we found when carrying some of the little 
brown trout from one of the burns to the loch 
that one of the captives on the journey in the 
small can in which they were being carried had 
caught and succeeded in half swallowing another 
little trout half its own size. 
Both Mr. Malloch (see pp. 130-132 of liis work 
mentioned above) and Mr. Ilamish Stuart {The 
Book of the Sea-Trout,^ p. 240) agree that the 
young of the sea-trout, if confined in a loch, grow 
rapidly if the feeding be good, and are as silvery 
as sea-trout that are fresh run. 
My experience in regard to the young of the 
sea-trout put into this loch confirms this view, as 
I have caught sea- trout up to nearly 2 lb. in the 
loch, which arc in no way distinguishable from 
the ordinary fresh -run sea-trout. It is curious, 
1 Martin Seeker, London, 1917. 
