268 The T routs of America 



smaller ones are scattered along forward to the 

 head in some specimens, but not in others. The 

 fins are variously and beautifully colored. On 

 the upper angle of the first dorsal a yellowish 

 white prevails, edged by a dark oblique streak, 

 while the rest of the fin is light olive in color with 

 four or five rows of small black spots. The pec- 

 toral or breast fins are of light orange, the ven- 

 trals deep orange with a faint blackish tip, the 

 anterior edge conspicuously and abruptly white as 

 in the fontinalis. The anal fin is dusky orange, 

 the tips of the rays blackish ; the tail fin is olive 

 tinged with orange on its lower edge, and pro- 

 fusely spotted with black. I have been par- 

 ticular in describing in detail the coloration of 

 this fish, which is the form that lives in the more 

 quiet waters above the last falls of Whitney's 

 Creek before it flows into Kern River, because I 

 have taken at the mouth of the creek a golden 

 trout and a Kern River form, another about six 

 hundred yards above the mouth and below the 

 lower falls, and about a dozen or more above the 

 falls. In these localities, the extremes of which 

 were hardly a mile apart, three fish of different 

 coloration and form were taken, yet they were all 

 rainbows. The Kern River fish weighed three 



