40 FISH HARVESTING. 



SALMO QUINNAT. 



Richardson, F. B. A., 'Fishes,' p. 219 ; Common 

 Salmon, Lewis and Clark. INDIAN NAMES: at 

 Chinook Point, mouth of the Columbia, Quinnat ; 

 at the Kettle Falls, See-met-leek; by the Nes- 

 quallys, Satsup. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. Head, just one-fourth 

 of the entire length, measured from the tip of the 

 nose to where the scales terminate at the tail ; 

 the operculum very much rounded, and usually 

 with several spiny projections on the outer mar- 

 gin ; preoperculum rounded much the same, but 

 wanting the serrated margin; branchial rays, 

 fourteen. Cleft of the mouth posterior to the eye, 

 which is a dark copper- colour in the freshly- caught 

 fish. The teeth are large and strong in both 

 jaws, but they vary in number according to the 

 age, sex, and condition of the salmon ; about ten 

 in each limb of the jaws may be taken as the usual 

 average in an adult fish. Those on the tongue 

 are smaller, and placed in two rows, six in each 

 row. The vomerine and palatine teeth are again 

 much smaller and weaker than any of the others, 

 corresponding to such as stud the gullet. 



Fresh from the water, the colours in a healthv 



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fish are particularly marked and bright, but 

 change rapidly after death. The back, through 



