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The present absence of trout has been locally attributed to a heavy 
flood which is said to have washed them away. There is evidence 
along the bottom-lands that such a flood did occur, but that it 
washed the trout out is highly improbable. It seems much more 
probable that it may have filled the pools that once made it possible 
for trout to survive protracted dry seasons, though it is not impossible 
that the filling is due to the fact that the desiccation of the country 
has ats last reached a point where the stream is not able to take care 
of the débris arising from lateral erosion of the valley. It is not at 
all improbable that the creek may have completely dried up during 
some particularly dry cycle within the last 20 years. In any event 
we must believe that there were trout a quarter of a century ago, 
and so we have no reason to doubt that they existed during the 
occupancy of the valley by the ancient inhabitants, though that is 
not a necessary conclusion. Of course we have no definite evidence 
as to the species, but it was almost certainly the Rio Grande Basin 
trout (Salmo mykiss spilurus Cope). 
Cope! says he saw Gila pandora Cope (= Richardsonius pulchellus 
pandora Cope—Cockerell) in the creek below Ojo Caliente. Cope and 
Yarrow’? reported the following species from nearby Rio Grande 
drainage localities, to which species we have applied probable modern 
nomenclature, placing in parentheses the names under which they 
were reported: 
Pantosteus plebeius Baird & Girard (P. jarrovw Cope). Sucker. 
Taos, San Ildefonso, and Tierra Amarilla. 
Hybognathus nuchalis Agassiz. Silvery Minnow. San Ildefonso. 
Richardsonius pulchellus pandora (Cope) (Gila pandora). North- 
ern Rio Grande Dace. Near San Ildefonso. 
Notropis simus Cope (Alburnellus sumus). Rio Grande Shiner. 
San Idefonso. 
Notropis dilectus Girard (Alburnellus jemezanus Cope). San 
Ildefonso. 
Notropis lutrensis Baird and Girard (Hypsilepis wis Cope). San 
Ildefonso. 
1Cope, E. D., Report upon the Extinct Vertebrata Obtained in New Mexico by Parties of the Expe- 
dition of 1874, Geog. Surv. W. of 100th Merid. (Wheeler Survey), Iv, pt.U, p.21. Seealso Ann. Rept. for 1875, 
p. 66, 1875. : 
2 Cope, E. D., and Yarrow, H. C., Report upon the Collections of Fishes Made in Portions of Nevada, 
Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, During the Years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874, Geog. 
Surv. W. of 109th Merid. (Wheeler Survey), V, pp. 635-703, 1875. See also Cockerell, T. D. A., The Nomen- 
clature of the American Fishes Usually Cailed Leuciscus and Rutilus, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., Xxu, pp. 
215-17, 1909; The Fishes of the Rocky Mountain Region, Univ. Colo. Studies, v, pp. 159-178, 1908; Jordan, 
David Starr, and Evermann, Barton Warren, The Fishes of North and Middle America, Bull. 47, U.S. Nat. 
Mus., 4 vols., 1896-1900. 
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