424 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



F— CATALOGUE OF COLLECTIONS SENT TO THE SMITH- 

 SONIAN INSTITUTION IN 1873. 



190. First male salmon taken ; caught with a hook ; weight, 8 pounds ; 



girth, 14 inches ; McCloud Eiver, California, July 27, 1873. 



191. Male salmon ; weight, 5 pounds ; girth, 13 inches ; McCloud Eiver, 



July 27, 1873. 



192. Salmon caught in seine; weight, 22 pounds ; girth, 22 inches; fe- 



male ; July 28, 1873. 

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 194. 



195. Six small trout, McCloud Eiver, California, August 6, 1873. 



196. Two heads of small male salmon, McCloud Eiver, August 6, 1873. 



197. Female salmon ; weight, 21 pounds ; girth, 21 inches ; caught with 



seine and kept some time in pen ; fins and tail partly destroyed 

 by fungus and abrasion ; McCloud Eiver, California, August 6, 

 1873. 



198. Trout, McCloud Eiver, August 8, 1S73. 

 199. 



200. Trout, McCloud Eiver, August 8, 1873. 



201. Jar of trout, McCloud Eiver, August 7, 1873. 



202. Four small trout, McCloud Eiver, August 7, 1873. 



203. Skin and head of female salmon ; weight, 10 pbunds ; full of spawn, 



not separated, but nearly ripe ; meat, dark salmon-color ; skin 

 now quite dark, slimy, and scales nearly absorbed ; August 8, 

 1873. 



204. Female salmon ; weight, 12 pounds ; girth, 17 inches ; August 13, 



1873 ; McCloud Eiver. 



205. Male salmon ; weight, 4 pounds ; girth, 11 inches ; McCloud Eiver, 



California, August 13, 1873. 



206. Female salmon; very slimy and dark; weight, 19 pounds ; girth, 



20^ inches ; length, 33£ ; spawn weighed 2^ pounds and was nearly 

 ripe ; August 14, McCloud Eiver, California, 1873. 



207. Pyloric appendages and roe of 206. 



208. Male salmon ; weight, 6 pounds ; girth, 13 inches ; August 3, 1873, 



McCloud Eiver, California, 



209. Male salmou ; weight, 5 pounds ; girth, 12£ inches ; McCloud Eiver, 



California, July 29, 1873. 



210. Female salmon; weight, 21 pounds; girth, 21 inches; McCloud 



Eiver, California, August 6, 1873. 



211. Male salmon; weight, 24 pounds; girth, 21 inches; McCloud Eiver, 



California, July 30, 1873. 



212. Female salmon; weight, 20 pounds; girth, 18 inches; McCloud 



Eiver, California, July 25, 1873. 

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