118 EEPOKT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



as the Iiidiaus believe, to sometliing' peculiar in the water. — (Keniierly, in 

 MSS.) Dr. Kenuerly in a note made on tlie 13tli of September, 1859, says ; 

 that lie had that day "observed many dead salmon floating on the 1 

 lake." 



Mr. Gibbs found the species in full run August 1, 1857, in the salt 

 water on the west side of Lummi Island. 



II. Spotted with red, feeding freely in fresh water. 

 19. SALMO CAMPBELLI, Suckley. 



PACIFIC RED-SPOTTED SALMON-TEoUT ; CHEWAGH. 



Syn. — Salmo specfahilis, Gkd. Proc. A. Nat. Sc. Ph.Tiii, 1856, p. 218; — Ibid. P.acific 

 R. R. Rep.,vol.xii, p. 307 ; — Suckley, Rept. on the Salmouiclie, P. R. R. Re- 

 ports, vol. xii, aufl Nat. Hist. Wash. Terii., p. 342. 

 Salmo camjibelli, Suckley. Notices of certain New Species of N. A. Salmou, , 

 June, 1861. 



Sp. Ch. — A slender fish for the genus. Head, measured from snout t 

 to distal edge of operculum, contained about four and three-quarter 

 times in the total length ; measured from snout to nape, it is contained . . 

 seven and a half times. When the pecitorals are smoothed backward ! 

 against the belly the point of greatest girth is along a line drawn verti- 

 cally near their ends ; from whence to the snout there is a regular curve, , i 

 but i^osteriorly the line of the back is quite straight, the body being ' 

 somewhat comj)ressed latterly and tapering. Scales much smaller than 

 in individuals of S. iridea, Gibbons, of the same size. They are very deli- i 

 cate and easilj^ detached. Caudal, forked. Back and sides, low down, are 

 covered with spots (about two lines in diameter in a fish one foot long;) 

 those near the lateral line being of a beautiful rose color ; those above 

 and below, cream-colored or white. Tail forked. A small clump of 

 teeth on anterior extremity of the vomer as in the chars, or Salvelini of 

 Nilsson. 



Diagnosis. — Known from all the Pacific fronts by the red spots on 

 the sides, and whitish ones on the back. 



In 185G Dr. Girard described a trout sent by me from the Dalles on the 

 Columbia Eiver. The specimen was very much broken, and the descrip- 

 tion vague. I have, however, succeeded in identifying other specimeus . 

 sent by Dr. Kenuerly from Puget Sound, by comparing these with the ■■ 

 remains of the original typical specimen. 



In two of these fish in the Smithsonian collection there are two teeth 

 on the head of the vomer, and on each side, and two on the shaft. Oue 

 specimen had 42 scales above the lateral line to ndddle of the back ; 

 40 below the lateral line, and 156 upon it. 



Bays.— Br.'. D. 12 : P. 17 : V. 10 : A. 10 : C. 20. 



Dr. Girard first described this trout, giving it the name of S. spccta- 

 bilis,hni which I have been obliged to change, as there had already been 

 described by Valenciennes, in his Hist. Nat. des Poissons, a species un- 



