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adults is stated to rarely exceed ten or eleven inches. 

 Among the examples forwarded by Professor Johnson were 

 mature males and females little more than eight inches 

 long ; the spermaries of the males were well developed, and 

 the ovaries were full of large and apparently ripe eggs. 

 Dr. Dawson wrote as follows: "This salmon is probably 

 seldom over a foot in length, generally about ten inches." 

 Distribution. — Kennerly's salmon was first described 

 from Chiloweyuck Lake, near the Frazer River (latitude, 

 49°), east of the Cascade Mountains. Mr. Gibbs had it from 

 the Nahoi-al-jDitkun River, west of the Cascades. It has 

 been reported also in Sweltscha and Pekosie Lakes. Dr. 

 Dawson saw it in " Nicola, Francois, Fraser, and Okonagan 

 Lakes, the first three tributary to the Fraser, the last to the 

 Columbia. ' ' Professor Macoun informed Dr. Dawson ' ' that 

 he caught it with a siooon-bait on Arrow Lakes, Kootanie 

 Lake, and on the Columbia River a few miles below Arrow 

 Lakes, in June and July last. All the lakes mentioned are 

 in part of their extent deep and clear, and all are or may be 

 reached by the salmon from the sea (generally, I think, the 

 saw-qui), except Kootanie Lake, which is cut off by a fall." 

 In a letter dated April 3, 1891, Dr. Dawson whites : " Shus- 

 wop Lake may be added as another certain locality for the 

 little land-locked salmon. In one of my note-books for 

 1877, under date of August 6th, the following note occurs : 

 ' Indians now spearing by torch-light in the mouth of Eagle 

 Creek a species of small salmon, which they assure me does 

 not go to or come from the sea, but is now ascending from 

 the lake to sj^awn.' * * * * Eagle Creek ilows 

 into Shuswop Lake near the present position of Sicamous 

 Station on the Canada PaciHc Railway. The date here given 

 is nearly a month earlier than those previously quoted. * * 

 * * * Nicola Lake is about ten miles in length ; it is 

 on the course of the river of the same name, which is a 

 tributary of the Thompson. The lake is a little north of 

 latitude 50'^. From Nicola Lake it runs up the Upper Ni- 



