Feb. 1899. 



NORTH AMERICAN FISHES MEEK. 



229 



Salmo clarki jordani, var. nov. 



Spotted Trout of Lake Southerland : 



Twenty- three specimens ; average length, 14.87 inches; head, 3.86 ; depth. 

 4.79; eye, 5.89; snout, 4. 13; maxillary, 1.78; scales, 146.1 ; dorsal, 10; anal, n, 



Body elongate, not much compressed ; head short, maxillary 

 not extending far behind orbit ; maxillary rather broad ; its great- 

 est width, 4^ in its length, in some specimens about 5^, a slight 

 curve downward under the eye ; dentition not so strong as in 

 the speckled trout of Lake Crescent ; gill rakers rather long, 

 longer than in the speckled trout, but less so than in Blue Back 

 of Lake Crescent; pectoral in head, 1.88; ventrals, 2.24; origin 

 of dorsal, midway between tip of snout and base of caudal, 

 or slightly nearer tip of snout ; origin of ventrals, under first 

 to third dorsal rays; margin of dorsal fin, convex; base, 1.32 

 in longest ray ; snout bluntish. D. 10, A. n. Branchiostegals, 

 10 or ii ; usually 10 on one side, n on the other. 



Color in alcohol, dark steel blue above, paler below, becoming 



