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ship, however, was chiefly the actual red salmon collected 

 by Captain Charles Bendire, U. S. A., and the individuals 

 were considerably larger than the Kennerly's salmon to be 

 discussed in this article. Since the time of Dr. Jordan's 

 study of the Museum sf)ecimens, we have received new ma- 

 terial and recent information which enable us to place the 

 species, as I think, in a diffei-ent light, and to contribute 

 something of interest to its life-history. On November 26, 

 1888, and October 8, 1889, Professor O. B. Johnson, of the 

 University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., collected for 

 the Smithsonian Institution a large series of these small 

 salmon in a little stream, tributary to Lake Washington, 

 near Seattle. In March, 1891, Dr. George M. Dawson, of 

 Ottawa, Canada, sent the writer a photograph of one of 

 the tish which he found in Nicola Lake, British Columbia, 

 September 7, 1890. Each of these gentlemen added some- 

 thing to our knowledge of the habits of the species. 



This recent material includes only salmon in or near the 

 spawning condition, yet it seems to me now sufficient to 

 warrant the separation of Kennerly's salmon from the red 

 salmon as a sub-species at least, and I would write its name 

 OncorhyncJius nerka^ sub-species hennerlyi. In the first 

 place, Kennerly's salmon becomes sexually mature when 

 only eight inches long, and seldom exceeds ten inches at 

 any time of life. It has about thirty gill rakers, while the 

 red salmon has about forty. Its fins are much larger than 

 those of the red salmon. It lives permanently in fresh 

 water, most of the year in deep parts of lakes, from which 

 it runs up small tributaries in autumn to spawn. 



Nami?s. — The describer of the species called it Kennerly's 

 Trout ; he records also the name Chiloweyuck red salmon 

 trout. The Indians of the Chiloweyuck Lake region styled 

 it Tsimia. According to Di-. Dawson, "The Kamloops In- 

 dian, or true Shuswop name of the fish, is Kuk-en-oioh. 

 The Okonagan Indian name, Knlc-en-eh, slightly differs." 



Size. — In Dr. Suckley's original description the size of 



