SUCKLEY MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS SALMO. 129 



"Four hooks are sometimes used, bound together by the shanks in such 

 a manner that the points are presented at rij^ht angles to each other. If 

 these are dropped among a number there is a chance of securing more 

 than one ; and if a single fish is the object, his cliance of escape is made 

 less. These are both easy methods. At tliis time they do not seize the 

 bait with tlie suddenness of the common brook-trout ; they take it cahnly 

 and retire deliberately' like the perch. They vary in size from one quarter 

 of a pound to five pounds ; but those taken are seldom less than on^ 

 quarter or more than three pounds. The larger ones are taken almost 

 exclusively in the deep water, through the ice. The males are of a very 

 brilliant and shining dark-brown olive color on the back. The sides are 

 brilliant and silvery and are traversed by a longitudinal line and covered 

 with very bright red and yellow spots. The belly is perfectly white. 

 There are some spots on the fins, but I cannot ay on which, nor if all 

 are spotted, nor do I know the precise number of spots. The females 

 are less brilliant than the males; the back is lighter and more dingy; 

 the sides are less silvery, and the spots are fewer and less bright. Sev- 

 eral females that I took were of a yellow-brown color and darker on the 

 back than on the sides, with a yellowisli-wliite belly. They were mot- 

 tled and looked as if water-soaked. These trout, as a whole, were much 

 more silvery and brilliant, and had more and brighter spots than most 

 brook-trout. Their Hesh is red, but not so darlv as that of the salmon. 

 There is but one other kind of fish found in this pond, viz, the perch. 

 They live in an entirely distinct part from that occupied bj' the trout, 

 and I think they are never seen or taken together. Tlie i)ercli are only 

 about the northeast shore, which is quite rocky. The trout have been 

 taken in this pond, as far as I could learn, from time immemorial, and 

 formerly in so great numbers, to use the language of the old fisherman, 

 as to ' have been fed by bushels to the hogs.' This is hj no means 

 the case at the present day." 



26. SALMO IRIDEA, Gibbons. 



PACIFIC BROOK TROUT. 



SY^.—Salmo ir'idea, Gibboxs, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sc. i, 1855, p. 36;— Grd. vol. x, P. K. 



R. Reports. PI. Ixxiii, fig. 5 ; Vol. xii, part 2, PI. Ixxiv. 

 Snhno ririilaris, Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sc. i, 1855, p. 43. 

 Salar iriclea, Gikard, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil, viii, p. 220, 1856 ; — Ibid. Pacific 



R. R. Reports, x, p. 321. 

 Faiio steUatus, Grd. Proc. A. N. Sc, Pliil., viii, 1856, p. 219 ;— Ibid. P. R. R. 



Report, x, p. 316 ;— Suckle y, (by oversight retaiuiug the word " Fario,") P. 



R. R. Rep. xii, p. 346; also, Nat. Hist. Wash. Ter., 346, pi. Ixix, figs. 5-8. 



' Sp. Cii. Head large, its greatest length measured to edge of oper- 

 culum, being contained about four and a-half times in the total length; 

 'usually a double row of teeth along the shaft of the vomer ; dorsal out- 

 Hue but slightly arched; tail strongly forked; lateral line about in the 

 [same plane as the centre of the eye. 

 S. Mis. 74 9 



