210 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



1881. 



September 10, 1881.— Hon. S. G. Worth sent to the United States 

 National Museum two young salar salmon, of the Sebago type, measur- 

 ing 7i inches. Tliese were collected at Henry's, North Carolina, on the 

 above date. (Catalogue number of specimens, 29088.) 



Novemher 24, 1881. — The same commissioner expressed a specimen of 

 of the land-locked form of salar salmon, measuring Ih inches in length; 

 this was caught on a hook in Mill Creek, t^vo miles above Henry Station, 

 in McDowell County, North Carolina. The letter of transmittal con- 

 tains the following information : '• 3,000 fry were j^lanted in Mill Creek, 

 in the spring of 1880, and 5,000 in the spring of 1881. * * * it may 

 be well to mention the planting of 1,000 California trout in Mill Creek, 

 March, 1880, with the land locked salmon. These fish must be the 

 original plant of 1880, there being dams below and these the only ones 

 planted above." (Catalogue number of salmon, 29112.) 



3. QuiNNAT OR California Salmon {Oncorhynchus chouieJia [Walb.] 

 Jordan & Gilbert). 



1877. 



December 14, 1877. — J. B. Thompson forwarded from his hatching 

 ponds at New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, three quinnat or 

 California salmon, measuring 13 to 14 inches, which had been reared in 

 confinement from eggs hatched in 1874. (Catalogue numbers, 20894, 

 20895, and 20896.) He also sent two measuring 5^ to G inches, which 

 were similarly raised from eggs of 1870. (Catalogue numbers, 20897 and 

 20898.) 



1878. 



July 15, 1878. — John S. Eobson, New Castle, Ontario, caught a speci- 

 men of quinnat salmon weighing 14 pounds, in Lake Ontario. 



1879. 



June, 1879. — Mr, A. Booth, of Chicago, 111., sent a quinnat salmon, 

 over 20 inches long, which was caught in Lake Michigan. (Catalogue 

 number, 23203.) 



November 3, 1879.— Mr. R. J. Sawyer presented to the National Mu- 

 seum a quinnat salmon, 10 inches long, which was caught at Green Bay, 

 Michigan. (Catalogue number, 23373.) 



■4. Rainbow Trout (Salmo irideus Gibbons). 



1879. 



SejHemher 23, 1879. — Mr. Livingston Stone, in a letter from the United 

 States fishery, Shasta, Cal,, reporting results of experiments with the 

 California trout {Salmo irideus), concludes: " In pure and swift running 

 water the Salmo irideus will, in my opinion, easily sursavea temperature 



