326 ZOOLOGY. 



Sir John Richardson, in the addenda to the fishes in F. B. A., acknowledges the receipt of 

 several specimens of three different kinds of trout from P. W. Dease, esq., taken in New Cale- 

 donia, (British Columbia.) One named supjtai, he says, "resembles the young of an anadromous 

 salmon. The scales are thin, flexible, and bright; the body is marked chiefly above the lateral 

 line with scattered cruscial or cresceniic Mack sjmIs, and the dorsal and caudal are thickly dotted 

 with oval blackish marks in rows.* The fins generally, but the under ones especially, are small, 

 and the latter appear to have been of a pale hue. * * * The characters ascribed by Dr. 

 Gairdner to the T. tsujipitrli of the Columbia agreeing well with this fish, and the names being 

 so similar, we may conclude that they are the same; and also that they belonged to the species 

 named silvery -white salmon-trout by Lewis and Clark." If it were not that Gairdner says dis- 

 tinctly that the fins and tail of the T. tsuppitch are destitute of spots, I should think it very likely 

 that the T. tsuppitch is the same as the suppai, perhaps the same as the silvery -ichite scdmon- 

 trout of Lewis and Clark, which, it is not unlikely, is that now known to the Oregon settlers as 

 the "white salmo7i," although it may he the 8. patccidens. There are, however, differences 

 which cannot readily be explained between Lewis and Clark's statements concerning the size 

 and period of "season" of their tvhite salmon-trout and Dr. Gairdner' s notes concerning the S. 

 paucidens. Lewis and Clark state that its weight is "ten pounds." Gairdner's S. jMucidens 

 " has an average weight of three or four pmuruls." Lewis and Clark say that their fish "is in 

 excellent order when the salmon are out of season." Dr. Gairdner remarks that the 8. paucidens 

 "is taken in company with the 8. Gairdneri" and "the quinnat," (the common salmon of Lewis 

 and Clark.) The tvhite salmon of the settlers runs up the rivers much later in the season than 

 the spring salmon noted by Dr. Gairdner, and, if my memory serves me, chooses the same 

 month as the 8. Scoxileri; in this respect agreeing with the 8. tsuppitch, which, according to Dr. 

 Gairdner, ascends with the "ekewan," {8. 8rouleri1) 



The salmon described by Girard in the General Report on Fishes, Pacific Railroad Reports, 

 vol. 10, page 312, as the Fario argyreus, Grd., may, perhaps, be the 8. paucidens, Rich. It is 

 a,n unspotted ^sh, vtcife Plate LXX, Fig. 1. — (See remarks beyond, under head of Salmo argrjreus.) 



3. SALMO ARGYREUS, Grd. 



Plate LXX. — Gen. Rep. Fishes. 



Stn. '• Sa!mo argyreus, Grd." [Maa.) Pacific R. R Rep Gen. Rep. Fishes, la.'ig, p. 312. 



Fario argyreus, Grd. I'roc. A. N. Sc. Phil. VIII, 1866, 218.— Ib. Pacific R. R. Rep. vol. VT, Part IV, p. 32. 



As the description of this species given by Dr. Girard seems based on the characters of two 

 yotuuj, partially grown fish, the specific characters thus deduced are probably much unlike those 

 of the adult in good condition. For this reason no specific distinctions are given in this place; 

 but, for the convenience of those interested in the subject, they are inserted in the accompany- 

 ing note. 



My own specimen, marked 580, Smithson. Cat. Fishes, was caught at the mouth of Nisqually 

 river, (emptying into Puget Sound near Steilacoom,) December 1, 1856. In my note book I 

 find that its belly and sides were bright silver}'; back and top of head silvery blue. Lateral 

 line strongly defined. It was called by the natives satsup. 



George Gibbs, esq., in a letter to me, says: " The safcwp arrives at the mouth of the Puyallup 

 about the end of December, and remains until spring. Towards that season, when the streams 

 emptying into the sound are raised by the melting of the snow, the fish ascend them. This 



•* In a foot note Richardson sajs : " lu one specimen the spots on the fins are almost obsolete." 



