STONE OX THE SA*CKAMENTO SALMON. 197 



throug'li the year has been about 10 cents. These are gokl figures. The 

 price has not varied nnicli the last few years. 



Question 85. Are these tish exported ; and if so, to what extent ? 



Answer. The Sacramento salmon are not exported at all, or only in a 

 fcM' exceptional instances, the home demand being sui^cient to exhaust 

 them. 



Question 86. Where is the principal market of these fish "? 



Answer. The principal market for them is the City of San Francisco. 



20. — OTHER SALMONID^ OF THE SACRAMENTO RIVER. 



The other Salomonidw of the Sacramento (main) Eiver are confined to 

 one variety, which some call a salmon, but which the fishermen think is 

 a mountain- trout, which has dropped down the river farther than usnal. 

 It is described in my catalogue of Smithsonian specimens under Xos. 12 

 and 13. It is quite rare in the Lower Sacramento. 



The common mountain-trout is found in abnndance in all the cold 

 tributaries of the main river, and probably other varieties which have 

 not been reported. 



21. — OTHER sal^ionid.t: of the m'cloud river. 



Besides the salmou, there are, in the McClond, three other varieties 

 of Salmon id(C : 1, the common mountain-trout; 2, the wyc-dar-deel'et ; 

 and, 3, the "silver-trout." A full series of specimens of the first variety 

 has been collected and sent to the Smithsonian Institution. (See cata- 

 logue of specimens.) This fish is delicious eating, when prime, and is 

 quite abundant in the river, and ascends the small tributaries of the river 

 in vast quantities, to spawn, in the winter. 



The second variety is very rare in the Lower McClond, but abundant 

 at its head- waters, and being a very handsome and delicious fish, is the 

 favorite fish for fifty miles around. (See No. 27 and Ko. 68 of Catalogue 

 of Smithsonian^Specimens.) 



The third variety I only heard of as being at the sources of the 

 McClond, It was described to me as a round, plump, silvery trout, and 

 not rare. 



I will here add that the other fish of the Sacramento (main) Eiver are 

 the white-perch, Sacramento pike or white-fish, (a cypriuoid,) sturgeon, 

 chub, hard-heads, split-tails, (herrings,) suckers, mud-fish. Of these the 

 white-fish, sucker, and mud-fish are found in the IMcCloud Eiver. (See 

 Catalogue of Specimens.) 



22.— list of INDIAN WORDS OF THE m'CLOLD DIALECT. 



Although it does not properly come within the scope of this report, I 

 take the liberty to append a few words of the dialect of the McClond 



* I am iuformed by the fish-dealers in San Francisco that 10,000 fresh salmon a week 

 are sent into that city from the San Joaqnin and the Sacramento Rivers in August, 

 when salmon are the cheapest and most abniulant. 



