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. [Illustration: FIG. 207.--Steelhead Trout, _Salmo gairdneri_ Richardson. Columbia River.] [Illustration: FIG. 208.--Tahoe Trout, _Salmo henshawi_ Gill & Jordan. Lake Tahoe, California.] [Illustration: FIG. 209.--The Dolly Varden Trout, _Salvelinus malma_ (Walbaum). Lake Pend d'Oreille, Idaho. (After Evermann.)] [Illustration: FIG. 210.--Alaska Grayling, _Thymallus signifer_ Richardson. Nulato, Alaska.] [Illustration: FIG. 211.--Pike, _Esox lucius_ L. Ecorse, Mich.] [Illustration: FIG. 212.--Atka-fish, _Pleurogrammus monopterygius_ (Pallas). Atka Island.] Other most excellent food-fishes are the eel (_Anguilla_ species), the pike (_Esox lucius_), the muskallonge (_Esox Roccus_), the sole of Europe (_Solea solea_), the sardine (_Sardinella pilchardus_), the atka-fish (_Pleurogrammus monopterygius_) of Bering Sea, the pescado blanco of Lake Chapala (_Chirostoma estor_ and other species), the Hawaiian mullet (_Mugil cephalus_), the channel catfish (_Ictalurus punctatus_), the turbot (_Scophthalmus maximus_), the barracuda (_Sphyræna_), and the young of various sardines and herring, known as whitebait. Of large fishes, probably the swordfish (_Xiphias gladius_), the halibut (_Hippoglossus hippoglossus_), and the king-salmon, or quinnat (_Oncorhynchus tschawytscha_), may be placed first. Those people who feed on raw fish prefer in general the large parrot-fishes (as _Pseudoscarus jordani_ in Hawaii), or else the young of mullet and similar species. [Illustration: FIG. 213.--Pescado blanco, _Chirostoma humboldtianum_ (Val.). Lake Chalco, City of Mexico.] [Illustration: FIG. 214.--Red Goatfish, or Salmonete, _Pseudupeneus maculatus_ Bloch. Family _Mullidæ_ (Surmullets).]