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Dolly Varden trout †

[perhaps from a character in Dickens' Barnaby-Rudge, a coquette who wore a flowered dimity dress]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a char, Salvelinus malma spectabilis, characterized by reddish-orange spots on an olive-green skin, found in western lakes and rivers and on the Pacific coast.

See: bull trout,Dolly,Dolly Varden ,salmon trout(def. 2),sapi

Quotations

1918

. . . these lakes are full of cutthroat trout, and what the whites call Dolly Varden trout, and whitefish.

1960

The Dolly Varden char . . . is found nearly everywhere . . . from the Queen Charlotte Islands to the Rockies. . . .