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the northward, the trout passing through the sea along the 

 coast from stream to stream until the San Ramon was reached. 



It lias been suggested that the trout were introduced into the 

 San Ramon by the early Spanish padres many years ago. To 

 have accomplished such a feat successfully would have required 

 a knowledge of fish-cultural methods and a skill in handling 

 and transporting live fish which we have no reason to believe 

 were possessed by the padres. It would be a feat extremely 

 difficult of accomplishment even to-day. That the padres were 

 able to carry live trout hundreds of miles on pack animals 

 across a semi-desert or in a sailing vessel for more than a 

 hundred miles is highly improbable. The difficulties are too 

 great to permit the acceptance of this theory. Moreover, the 

 trout themselves possess characters which preclude the possibility 

 of identifying them with any known species in any of the 

 streams of California, Arizona, Chihuahua, or elsewhere. 



We are, therefore, led to the conclusion that the Rio San 

 Ramon of the San Pedro Martir was stocked with trout by 

 natural extension from trout waters of the coast region of 

 southern California and at a period sufficiently remote to have 

 allowed ample time for its specific differentiation. 



Fundulus meeki Evermann, sp. now 



Figure 1 . 



Head 3.1 in length to base of caudal; depth 3.4; eye 4.5 in head; 

 snout 4; interorbital 2.7; D. 12; A. 12; scales 34-13. 



Body short and stout; profile from tip of snout to highest part of back, 

 which is in vertical above base of pectoral, rising rather rapidly and in a 

 straight line, descending slightly thence to dorsal tin along the base of 

 which it drops more rapidly to caudal peduncle whose dorsal and ventral 

 lines are approximately parallel; ventral outline little convex; greatest 

 width of body at pectorals 1.5 in depth; head large, flat, the interorbital 

 broad; eye small; snout rather long and pointed; teeth in a narrow band 

 in each jaw, those of outer series enlarged, subequal, pointed, firm, the 

 tips not dark; caudal peduncle (measured from base of last anal ray to 

 base of caudal tin) 1.4 in head, its least width 3 in its least depth, which 

 is 1.5 in its length; scales rather large, about 25 on median line of back 

 from front of dorsal to snout. Fins small; origin of anal under middle 

 of dorsal, their rays about equal in length and equal to snout and eye; 

 caudal truncate; ventrals small; pectoral 2 in head. 



Intestine short, peritoneum black. Color in spirits, back grayish olive, 

 middle of side with a broad more or less interrupted blackish band most 

 distinct posteriorly and in the young, in which it tends to break up in 



