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Its movements being like those attributed to evil spirits, probably 

 suggested the name by wbich it is known. 



Dr. Bryant (Proc. Boston Soc. of N. U. v. 7, p. 132) gives the fol- 

 lowing account ot Fuffinus obsciirns : — "The nest is always placed iu a 

 hole or under a projecting portion of the rock, seldom more than a foot 

 from the surface, and never, as far as my experience goes, out of reach 

 of the hand. On being caught they make no noise, and do not resist at 

 all. Why these birds and the Stormy Petrels never enter or leave their 

 holes iu the daytime, is one of the mysteries of nature; both of them 

 feeding and flying all day, yet never seen in the vicinity of their breed- 

 ing places before dark." 



iVOTKS OX A COZ.K,lE€riO\ OF FISHES FROM €I^ACK.4:nAS 

 KIVFR, OREOON. 



By DAVID S. JORDAN, M. D. 



The United States National Museum has lately received from Mr. 

 Livingston Stone a small collection of fishes obtained by him from the 

 Clackamas River, a tributary of the Columbia in Oregon. The collec- 

 tion coniprises only six fpecies, but each species (excepting Salmo tsnp- 

 pitch) IS represented by several specimens, all in excellent condition; 

 and it so happens that each one of these is a species of special scientific 

 interest, and one concerning which our knowledge has for one reason or 

 another been incomplete. Four of these species were first described by 

 Richardson (Fauna Boreali- Americana, 1830), viz, Oncorhynchus qtiinnat^ 

 Salmo tsuppitck, Salmo clarki, and Gila orcgoncnsis ; another, Acrochilus 

 alutaceua, was first made known by Professor Agassiz (Am. Journ. Sci. 

 and Arts, 1855) ; and the last, Salvelinus spectabilifi, by Dr. Girard in 1856. 



I. ONCORHYNCHUS QUiNNAT (Richardson) Giinther. 



C<(lilof)}i({ Sdlmoii. Colioidna Salnion. Qulnnat Salmon. 



i18:J6 — Salino qnuniat Uiciiaudson, Fauna IJor. Am. lii, ]). 219, (doKcribed from notes by 

 Dr. Gairdnei). 



Salmo (/ithtiiot DkK.vy, Fauna New York, Fisbu.s, ]). ^42, 1842, (coi»ied). 



Hahno qii'innut .Stokkh, Synopsis Fi li. N. A. p. 19(5, 1846, (copied). 



Salmo (iniiiiiat Hehi!i;kt. Frank Forre.ster's Fish and Fishing, Supplement, p. IU, 

 lKr)0. 



Salmo (jitiniud («ii:.\i;r), Proc. Ac. Nat. He. Phila. viii, ]). 217, 1856. 



Salmo qiiinnat Gikard, I'ac. R. R. Rep. Fishes, p. ;?06, pi. C7, 1858. 



Salmo qulnnat Sucklev, Nat. Hist. Wash. Terr. p. :?21, 1860. 



OncorhiinchuH qulnnat Gunthkk, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. vi, p. 158, 1866, (compiled). 



Salmo quinnut Sucklev, Monograph Genus Salmo, Rept. U. S. Fish. Comm. p. 

 105, 1874. 



Salmo qidnnal Nelson, Bull. Ills. Mus. Nat. Hist, i, p. 43, 1876, (Illinois River). 



Salmo quinnut Hallock, Sportsman's Gazetteer, p. 359, 1877. 



Oncorhynchus quinnut Jordan, Man. Vert. ed. 2d, p. 357, 1878. 



Oncorhynchus quinnat Jordan, Catalogue Fresh-water Fishes N. A. p. 431, 1878. 



Salmo quinnat, U. 8. Fish Comm. Repts., and of writers on Salmon and fish cul- 

 ture generally. 



