. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . n calls attention to thefact that the types of this species ^lave well developed hyoid teeth andmust be placed in the same group w\i\\ pujptiraius, and not with spiiurus,as has hitherto been done by good authorities. The Waha Lake Trout, S. piupuratus Boiivieri, was discovered by Bendire,U. S. A., in Waha Lake, a landlocked mountain tarnin Washington Territory. It is a curiously colored local form of S. piir-puratus, with dark spots only
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . n calls attention to thefact that the types of this species ^lave well developed hyoid teeth andmust be placed in the same group w\i\\ pujptiraius, and not with spiiurus,as has hitherto been done by good authorities. The Waha Lake Trout, S. piupuratus Boiivieri, was discovered by Bendire,U. S. A., in Waha Lake, a landlocked mountain tarnin Washington Territory. It is a curiously colored local form of S. piir-puratus, with dark spots only on the dorsal, caudal and adipose fins, andon the tail behind the anal where the spots are very dark and compar-atively small. It is characterized by other minute differences cata-logued by Jordan. The Kansas River Trout, S. stoiiiias,\sd. form with a broad, flat head, dis-tributed from the Kansas river to the Upper Missouri,—the characteristics THE SALMON TR O UTS. 45 9 of which have not yet been well definetl. Bean states that it reachestwenty-four inches in length, is believed to be one of the numerous varieties of Salmo THE BRO^N TROUT. The Brown Trout of Europe, Salmo fario, has been successfully intro-duced into our waters by the U. S. Fish Commission. Eggs were first received from Herr Von Behr, the President of theDeutsche Fischerei-Verein, in the winter of i882-83, and were sentdirectly from New York to the station at Northville, where they arrivedFebruary iS. These were successfully hatched out by Mr. Clark by themiddle of March, and early in April were planted by him in a branch ofthe Pere Marquette River of Northern Michigan. Early in 1S83 another lot of eggs was sent to Mr. Mather as a personalpresent by Herr Von Behr. Most of those kept at this station died, butthose sent to the Northville Station and to the station of the New YorkFish Commission at Caledonia were reported as doing well. In 1SS4Herr Von Behr sent an additional gift, this time to th
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