Fishes . andlose their spots. The trout of the restaurant will not cease tobe. He is no more like the trout of the wild river than thefat and songless reedbird is like the bobolink. Gross feedingand easy pond-life ener\-ate and deprave him. The trout thatthe children will know only by legend is the gold-sprinkled,living arrow of the white water; able to zigzag up the cataract;able to loiter in the rapids; whose dainty meat is the glancingbutterfly. The brook-trout adapts itself readily to cultivation in arti-ficial ponds. It has been successfully transported to Europe,and it is already abundan
Fishes . andlose their spots. The trout of the restaurant will not cease tobe. He is no more like the trout of the wild river than thefat and songless reedbird is like the bobolink. Gross feedingand easy pond-life ener\-ate and deprave him. The trout thatthe children will know only by legend is the gold-sprinkled,living arrow of the white water; able to zigzag up the cataract;able to loiter in the rapids; whose dainty meat is the glancingbutterfly. The brook-trout adapts itself readily to cultivation in arti-ficial ponds. It has been successfully transported to Europe,and it is already abundant in certain streams in England, in Cali-fornia, and elsewhere. In Dublin Pond, New Hampshire, is a gray variety withoutred spots, called Salvelintis agassizi. The Dolly Varden trout, or malma (Salvcliiius malma), isvery similar to the brook-trout, closely resembling it in size, form,color, and habits. It is found always to the westward of theRocky Mountains, in the streams of northern California, Oregon,. <^ Fig. 345 —Malma Trout, or Dolly Varden, Salvelinus malma (Walbaum). Cook Inlet, Alaska. Washington, and British Columbia, Alaska, and Kamtchatka, asfar as the Kurile Islands. It abounds in the sea in the north-ward, and specimens of ten to twelve pounds weight are notuncommon in Puget Sound and especially in Alaska. The DollyVarden trout is, in general, slenderer and less compressed thanthe Eastern brook-trout. The red spots are found on the backof the fish as well as on the sides, and the back and upperfins are without the blackish marblings and blotches seen in Salmonids 337 Salvelinus fontinalis. In value as food, in beauty, and in gami-ness Salvelinus malma is very similar to its Eastern cousin. In Alaska the Dolly Varden, locally known as salmon-trout,is very destructive to the eggs of the salmon, and countlessnumbers are taken in the salmon-nets of Alaska and thrown awayas useless by the canners. In every coastwise stream of Alaska
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