Fig. 205.—Rainbow Trout, Salmo irideus Gibbons. Sacramento River, California.
Fig. 206.—Rangeley Trout, Salvelinus oquassa (Girard). Lake Oquassa, Maine.
The various kinds of trout have been made famous the world over. All are attractive in form and color; all are gamey; all have the most charming of scenic surroundings, and, finally, all are excellent as food, not in the first rank perhaps, but well above the second. Notable among these are the European charr (Salvelinus alpinus), the American speckled trout or charr (Salvelinus fontinalis), the Dolly Varden or malma (Salvelinus malma), and the oquassa trout (Salvelinus oquassa). Scarcely less attractive are the true trout, the brown trout, or forelle (Salmo fario), in Europe, the rainbow-trout (Salmo irideus), the steelhead (Salmo gairdneri), the cut-throat trout (Salmo clarkii), and the Tahoe trout (Salmo henshawi), in America, and the yamabe (Salmo perryi) of Japan. Not least of all these is the flower of fishes, the grayling (Thymallus), of different species in different parts of the world.
Fig. 207.—Steelhead Trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson. Columbia River.
Fig. 208.—Tahoe Trout, Salmo henshawi Gill & Jordan. Lake Tahoe, California.
