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the Molyneux River. It is intended this season to allot half a million 

 eggs to each of the three rivers which the department has now in hand — 

 viz: the Hokitika, Wairau, and Molyneux. The result of the inquiries 

 made goes to show that the salmon have spread along the coast north as 

 far as the Wairau (North Canterbury), and south to the Taieri River. 

 The Taieri is at times rather badly polluted by gold mining, but from 

 an examination of the tideway at its mouth, and its condition in the 

 gorge above Outram, I think it is quite possible for salmon to make 

 their way up to the clear tributaries beyond where the races from the 

 sluicing claims join the main river. 



"The very rapid increase of the quinnat salmon must be considered 

 as most satisfactory, and the time is very near indeed when they will 

 be placed on the market, and the people of the Dominion will have 

 New Zealand-grown salmon on their tables. New Zealand has the 

 distinction of being the only country in the Southern Hemisphere 

 which has successfully acclimatized salmon, and on the authority of 

 experts it is said to be the only country in the world which has been 

 successful in acclimatizing this salmon away from its native habitat. 

 The success attained in acclimatizing this fish is undoubtedly due to 

 the systematic and vigorous effort made by the Marine Department, 

 commencing in 1900. Had any of these prolific fish survived from the 

 spasmodic efforts made to acclimatize them previous to 1900, they 

 would have declared themselves long before the department commenced 

 its importations in 1900." 



BIGHORN SHEEP IN THE VICINITY OF CLAREMONT, 

 CALIFORNIA. 



By Leon L. Gardner. 

 (Contribution from the Department of Zoology of Pomona College.) 



That mountain or bighorn sheep still exist in small bands in various 

 parts of the California mountains is a fact well known. It, however, 

 comes as a welcome surprise to find them living, breeding and at least 

 holding their own in numbers, in the mountains not farther than thirty 

 miles from Los Angeles. Vague reports from old hunters that in certain 

 parts of the ranges near Mount San Antonio, commonly known as ' '' Old 

 Baldy," there were "wild goats and sheep," and that they were 

 "mighty hard to get near to," furnished the incentive for investigations 

 which have demonstrated that one species of bighorn sheep occurs in 

 the ranges north of Claremont, Los Angeles County. "Whether or not 

 this is the Nelson bighorn (Ovis nelsoni) is an open question which can 

 be decided only by the collection and study of specimens. 



The rumor relating to the occurrence of wild goats is undoubtedly 

 based upon the observation by hunters of the females and young sheep 

 with their smaller horns. A case in point is the sheep's head found in 

 Ice House Canj'on in the spring of 1916. The severe rains of the year 

 had washed it down from the mountainside and it was found at the 

 canyon bottom and brought into Camp Baldy. Word went out that the 

 head of a mountain goat had been found, and the Avriter immediately 



