94 Evermann and Nichols — Fishes of Crab Creek, Washington. 



Color (in life). — Olive, becoming golden on lower part oi side which is 

 tinged with silvery ; back, dorsal and candal with large black spots becom- 

 ing fewer towards head ; pectoral, ventral and anal reddish olive, a bright 

 brick-red streak on lower jaw ; belly white. 



Another cotype, 5.75 inches long, from same place had the scales about 

 33-174-31. 



Color (in life). — Olive green above, a bright red stripe along lower jaw; 

 about 4 roundish red blotches near the center of lateral line; black spots 

 on back, dorsal and caudal, becoming fewer towards head, the spots not 

 so numerous as in the other cotype, pectorals yellow ; ventrals dull yellow 

 with a white outer edge ; anal with a reddish and olive tint and white front 

 outer margin. 



A small example, 2.15 inches long from same place, gives the following 

 measurements: 



Head 3.7 in length; depth 4.2; eye 2.(3 in head; snout 4.5; maxillary 2; 

 least depth of candal peduncle 2.5. Anal rays 10. 



Color (in life). — Olive above with small black spots; belly white; pec- 

 toral, ventral, anal, and caudal fins dull yellow ; about 8 or 9 rather broad 

 parr marks; caudal dusky at base; yellow stripe at ba.^e of branchioste- 

 gals; dorsal (hill yellowish, somewhat marked with dusky at base, tip and 

 front margin; adipose tin pale dull yellowish with a dark tip and fine 

 dark punctulations. 



We note with great interest that fingerling fish (the colors of one of 

 which were carefully noted and a number of whicli were examined for 

 this mark) have the red cut-throat mark of the adult already indicated as 

 a yellow streak at the base of the branch iostegals. 



The Cral) Creek trout is evidently a species of the cut-throat series. 

 Red marks on throat are very distinct, and the scales are small, there 

 being Ulo to 175 in a longitudinal series. 



As regards coloration, the Crab Creek fish have the spots, which are 

 large, and vary in abundance, much the most abundant caudallj'. The 

 spots are mostly on the caudal jieduncle, the back as far forward as the 

 first dorsal fin, and the dorsal and caudal fins. In each specimen, how- 

 ever, few spots occur in the front part of the body. 



In the number, size and arrangement of the spots, this species most 

 resembles Sahno stomiiu, the trout of the headwaters of tlie Platte and 

 Arkansas. It dilfers from that species, however, in the shorter snout, 

 larger eye ami the somewiiat largi-r scales. The Waha Lake trout ( »S'. 

 bouvieri) diflers from the Crab Creek species in tlic entire absence of 

 black spots anteriorly. 



4. Cottus punctulatus ((^ill). 



WE.STERN BLOB. 



Very abundant, though only a few small specimens were secured. 



