American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . .Perhaps it is just as well to recognize most, if not all, of thesesubspecies as full species. This is certainly best in all caseswhere intergrading has not been proved. a. Back unspotted, strongly marbled with dark olive or black. b. Colour, dark olive; side with numerous red spots; fontinalis, 207 206 Brook Trout; Speckled Trout bb. Colour, pale grayish; very few red spots; agassi:(n, 210 aa. Back not marbled
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . .Perhaps it is just as well to recognize most, if not all, of thesesubspecies as full species. This is certainly best in all caseswhere intergrading has not been proved. a. Back unspotted, strongly marbled with dark olive or black. b. Colour, dark olive; side with numerous red spots; fontinalis, 207 206 Brook Trout; Speckled Trout bb. Colour, pale grayish; very few red spots; agassi:(n, 210 aa. Back not marbled with darker. c. Back with red or orange spots like those on sides; parkei, 210cc. Back unspotted, the red spots confined to the sides; maxil-lary usually not reaching beyond the eye. d. Gillrakers numerous, 6+12 to 16; head rather large, 4 to 4\ in body; body rather stout; belly orange in breeding season. e. Gillrakers longer and straighter than in the next, f length of eye, 7+14 in number; alipes, 212 ee. Gillrakers quite short, not \ length of eye, about 6+12 in number; aiireolus, 213 dd. Gillrakers fewer, 6+11, small; head small; 4^ to 5 in length; body slender; oquassa, 217. Brook Trout ; Speckled Trout Salveliniis fontinalis (Mitchill) And when the timorous Trout I wait To take, and he devours my Bait, How small, how poor a thing I find Will captivate a greedy Mind; And when none bite, the Wise I praise,Whom false Allurement neer betrays. The game-fish which has been most written about and whichis, perhaps, best and most widely known among the anglers of 207 Brook Trout; Speckled Trout the world is undoubtedly Salvelinus fontinalis. It is one of themost beautiful, active, and widely distributed of American natural range is from Maine to northern Georgia and Alabamain the Appalachian Mountains, and westward through the GreatLakes region to Minnesota; and in Canada from Labrador to theSaskatchewan. It has been extensively introduced into manywaters in which it was
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