Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — An Albino Brook Trout. [ARTICLE]

An Albino Brook Trout.

I have received from Colonel John Gay a small albino brook trout, three inches long, which was presented to him by Mr. J. P. Creveling, Superintendent of the Allentown hatchery of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission. This little trout liub pink eyes; the sides are of a pale “straw color and described by Colonel Gay as sparsely red spotted in life. The fins are paler than the bony and the teeth of the upper jaw deep brown on their outer surface. The fish is slightly deformed, the portion of the backbone near the tail fin being slightly bent downward, whilo the lower lobo of the tail is more nearly horizontal in direction than in the normal fish. This albino was hatched in Allentown from one of the eggs forwarded to that s’tation from Corry, Penn. Superintendent Graveling has a number of deformed trout now living, some of which are curiously distorted. He says they seldom live to a greater age than ten or eleven months. —[Forost and Stream.