SUCKLEY MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS SALMO. 105 



The Swedisli specimen (102, adnlt) shows scattered dark spots ahing- 

 the si(h\s, and iniuierons small, round dark si)ots on the opercules and 

 pre-opercula. Tail unspotted, 



8. SAL:\I0 QUINJIAT, Richardson. 



QUINNAT. 



Syn. — Salmo quinnat, Eicii. F. B. A. iii, 18:^6, p. 219 ; Dk Kay, N. Y. Faun.i, iv, 

 IHl^, p. 242; Stoker, Synopsis, 1843, p. 193 ; Hkkbert, Supplement to 

 Frank Forrester's Fish and Fishing, &c., 1850, p. 31 ; Gkd. in Proc. A. N. 

 Se. Phil., viii, 1856, p. 217 ; Iijid. Paeitic R. R. Reprn^ts, vol. vi ; Ibid. 

 Gen. Rep. Fishes, p. 308 ; Suckley, P. R. R. Eept., vol. xii, Part 2, p. 

 321 ; Ibid. N. H. Wash. Terr. &c., p. 321. 

 Common Salmon, Lewis and Clarke. 



Figures. — A young hsh called by this name, and probably belonging to the 

 species, has been figured under Dr. Girard's supervision, and appears in the 

 volniue on the fishes collected by the United States Pacific Railroad sur- 

 veying parties, Plato Ixvii. 



Sp. Ch. — Adult. — Head pointed and large, forming about a fourth of 

 the length from tlie snout to the end of the scales on the caudal. Dor- 

 sal outline regularly arched. Caudal deeply' cut out, (in the dried speci- 

 men foi'ked,) snout cartilaginous, as m S. sahir. Chin pointed, a trian- 

 gular bare projection extending beyond the teeth. 



" General tint of the back bluish gray, changing after a few hours' 

 removal from the water, into mountain green ; sides ash-gray, with sil- 

 very luster; belly white; back above the lateral line studded with irreg- 

 ular rhomboidal or star-like black spots, some of them ocellated. Dorsal 

 fin and gill-cover slightly reddish ; tips of the anal and pectorals black- 

 ish gray ; the dorsal and caudal thickly studded with round and rhotn- 

 boidal si)Ots; back of the head sparingly marked with the same. Whole 

 body below the lateral line, with tlie under i\ns, destitute of spots." 

 (Gairdner in Kich., F. B. A. Fishes, 2!i0.) Scales large. Branchiostegal 

 rays varying from 10 to 20. 



Young f — " Body fusiform in profile; compressed; head forming about 

 the fifth of the total length ; maxillary bone curved, extending beyond 

 the orbit ; anterior margin of the dorsal equidistant between the ex- 

 tremity of the snout and the insertion of the caudal; dorsal region oliva- 

 ceous, studded with irregidar black spots; dorsal and caudal fins similarly 

 spotted. Kegion beneath the lateral line unicolor, silvery along the mid- 

 dle of the flanks, and yellowish on the belly ; inferior fins unicolor ; head 

 above blackish-gray ; sides bluish-gray." — Girard. 



Based on a specimen, No. 9,'39, Smithsonian collection. 



Hab. — Pacific coast of North America, from San Francisco northward; 

 entering the larger rivers in great numbers annually. 



T,his being the most important salmon, both in excellence and numbers, 

 found in the western waters, 1 have taken the liberty of reproducing a 

 portion of the remarks on the species which were embodied in the reijort 



