The Speckled Brook Trout (salvelinus Fontinalis) |
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Page 36 - ... water-flies which are to be found moving about on the surface under banks and sheltered places. The trout fed with worms grew slowly, and had a lean appearance ; those nourished on minnows — which it was observed, they darted at with great voracity — became much larger ; while such as were fattened upon flies only, attained in a short time prodigious dimensions, weighing twice as much as both the others together, although the quantity of food swallowed by them was in nowise so great.
Page 175 - The white sun twinkling like the dawn Out of a speckled cloud. Sweet views, which in our world above Can never well be seen, Were imaged by the water's love Of that fair forest green.
Page 67 - Railroads, stages, telegraphs and hotels, it says, " have followed in the train of the throng who rushed for the wilderness. The desert has blossomed with parasols, and the waste places are filled with picnic parties, reveling in lemonade and sardines. The piano has banished the deer from the entire region, and seldom is any one of the countless multitude of sportsmen fortunate enough to meet with even the track of a deer.
Page 135 - Redfins, by wading briskly through the water, and striking at them with his bill. I have also observed a pair scrambling over the ice of a frozen pond, to get at some fish below, but without success. It does not confine itself to these kinds of food, but greedily devours young pigs, lambs, fawns, poultry, and the putrid flesh of carcasses of every description, driving off the vultures...
Page 36 - ... flesh, but they become golden in hue, and the red spots increase and outnumber the black ones. * * * * The peculiarity of feeding on shell-fish produced the gillaroo trout, a remarkable variety, found only in the Irish lakes.
Page 35 - Fish were placed in three separate tanks, one of which was supplied daily with worms, another with live minnows, and the third with those small dark-coloured water-flies which are to be found moving about on the surface under banks and sheltered places. The Trout fed with worms grew slowly, and had a lean appearance ; those nourished on minnows, which, it was observed, they darted at with great voracity, became much larger ; while such as...
Page 49 - ... trout being the most widely distributed. The last species may be known at sight by the worm-like markings on the back, red spots on the sides, the large mouths, blunt snouts and dark mottlings on their dorsal and tail fins. It is the most beautiful of all the charrs bv reason, as Harris writes, of the mantle of rose and violet which it wears, the mellow diffusion of which suggests and justifies the descriptive phrase so often applied to it by anglers — "the bloom of the trout...
Page 94 - ... voices of the pines. It took five minutes to kill my fish— two splendid specimens, weighing each a little less than two pounds. Meantime the rip had increased, and the breeze came fresh and steady. It was too dark now to see the opposite shore, and the fish rose at every cast ; and when I had a half dozen of the same sort, and one that lacked only an ounce of being full four pounds, we pulled up the killeck and paddled homeward around the wooded point. The moon rose, and the scene on the lake...
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