California Fish and Game 



"CONSERVATION OF WILD LIFE THROUGH EDUCATION" 



Volume 4 SACRAMENTO, JANUARY, 1918 Number 1 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 THE SKATES AND RAYS OF CALIFORNIA WITH AN ACCOUNT OF 



THE RAT FISH E. G. Storks 1 



THE QUINNAT SALMON IN NEW ZEALAND .V. B. Scofield 16 



BIGHORN SHEEP IN THE VICINITY OF CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA 



L. L. Gardner 17 



DEER LICKS OF THE TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST GAME REFUGE 



H. C. Bryant 21 



UNAPPRECIATED FRIENDS ■/. G. Tyler 26 



EDITORIALS 30 



HATCHERY NOTES 45 



COMMERCIAL FISHERY NOTES : 49 



LIFE HISTORY NOTES --— 50 



REPORTS— 



Fishery Products, July to September, 1917 52 



Violations of Fish and Game Laws _ 54 



Seizures 55- 



Financial Report ' 5G 



THE SKATES AND RAYS OF CALIFORNIA, WITH AN 

 ACCOUNT OF THE RAT FISH.- 



By Edwin Chapin Starks. 



This account of the skates and rays of California may be considered 

 a continuation of the account of the sharks t that appeared in the last 

 number of this journal, for the skates and rays are closed related to 

 the sharks, and may be regarded as an offshoot developed from them. 

 The appearance of the skates on the earth was much later than that 



*This is the second of a series of articles the first of which was entitled "The Sharks 

 of California." Attention is called to still another shark, commonly called the bonito 

 shark (Isuropsis glauca), which sliould be included among the sharks of our coast. 

 It resembles the mackerel sharl? and the great wliite shark in having a projecting keel 

 on each .side of the tail. It may be known from tlie white shark by the smooth-edged 

 teeth, and from the mackerel shark by the first dorsal being behind tlie pectorals 

 instead of almost directly over them. It is more slender than the mackerel shark. A 

 specimen thirteen feet in length was taken at Santa Catalina Island a few years ago, 

 where small ones are reported by the late C. F. Holden to be common. It is otherwise 

 known from Japan and the Hawaiian Islands. 



tThe author wislies to also call attention to a mistake made in printing the article 

 on sharlvs that appeared in the last number of California Pish and Game. The 

 first three lines on page 153 should be below the next six lines instead of above them. 

 In the copies of the article that were separately printed the mistake was corrected. 



BURLINGAME 

 PUBUC 



ua 



