To the Editor of the '"Nonrut-Cuiwa Daty News"
Sin—In your issue of October 16 last under the caption "Sixty Years Ago" you reprint from your issue of] that date in 1876 a most Interesting ole on "Ashing." 1 have been too busy to write you about It til now, Te seems that Shanghai were even then on the look out for 4 Dit of fishing, apparently with some success.
Amongst other things of interest discusses the discovery of genuine} trout "by some tourists at a place beyond the Great Wall, north of Kupelkow, and between it and Jehho (eho and that that is the only record of their discovery in China."
In a paper by von Mollendorff on the fauna of Chihli Province whea appeared in the "Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society" of 1877 this discovery mentioned, the name for the trout being given as Salmo trutta, which is thal for the English brown trout.
Although the Jehol area trout has several times been reported since} 1878, not a single specimen so far appears to have reached a sclentife Institution, and Its proper designation sti remains doubtful. In" other words, nobody yet knows just ~what species it represents.
'On expeditions which I. made to the area in question in January, 1915, and July, 1017, respectively, T' tried hhard'to secure' specimens but falled, and although several other scientific expeditions have visited this area, Including one under Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, none appears fo have brought back specimens of this mysterious fish, although Dr, Andrews in one of his books actually describes catching trout in this area, is a most remarkable thing that a fish first discovered sixty years ago should still remain unidentified.
It has been suggested by myself Naturalist's Note-Book in China" that it represents the spelted trout of Eastern Siberia and' Manchuria, known scientifically as Brackymystax Tenok (Pallas), but this remains to be
Shanghai, Nov. 1 "Anmiun De C, Sowsnsy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.