Rainbow Trout
It has been vigorously maintained and as vigorously denied that rainbow trout (which are the stand-by of New Zealand fishing) are indigenous to • England. They are as little popular with our fishermen as the so-called French partridge with our sportsmen ; but the greatest of our experts in the cultivation of the partridge are beginning to whitewash the character of this species, on the ground that it will flourish where the English partridge fails or in years when the English partridge fails. So the rainbow trout has its own virtues and it takes kindly to some English waters where trout have some trouble to maintain their existence ; and it grows in bulk raPidly when put into congenial waters. There are a good many streams in these days where trout will flourish during a single lifetime but can find no suitable place for spawning ; and the artificial stocking of rivers (which is done by the Government in some countries, Nova Scotia, for example) is a practice increasing with the increase of the cult of fishing. It is pessible that rainbow trout, though not so game a fish as the' brown, might be usefully added to the stock.
W. BEACH THOMAS.
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