Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: should be considered before the convenience of a few manufacturers. A WORD ABOUT TROUT. As there are "many men of many minds," so there are many trouts of many kinds, and I use the word "trouts" in the plural because they are entitled to be so spoken of. On the Atlantic coast of America we have the native brook and lake trouts and the introduced brown trout of Europe, the rainbow trout and the "cut-throat trout" from the West, the latter so called from a red mark on its throat; while on the Pacific slope there is a number of trouts: two species discovered by Admiral Beardslee last year—but I might get in a muddle if I. tried to name them all. To begin with, our brook and lake trout, the latter miscalled "salmon trout," are not trout at all. Some twenty years or more ago when we sent our revered brook trout to England, our American anglers were indignant at being told thatjt was not a trout but a char. They had never heard of a char and within a year or so afterward, when they had learned that a char was a higher form of trout, with finer scales and requiring colder water, they cooled down and accepted the dictum of the anglers and scientists who live on the other side of the great damp spot. The fact is that the true trouts have the dentition of the salmon and comparatively coarse scales. The brown trout, rainbow trout, and probably all the black-spotted trout of the Pacific coast are true trouts, and are included in the genus Salmo, while our two eastern brook and lake species and the red-spotted "Dolly Varden" trout of the West are chars and in the genus Salvelinus,which is Germanized latin for "little salmon." A name is not a little thing, even if a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. We should have only one name for one fish, but with our great wealth of f...