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through the year has been about 10 cents. These are gohl figures. The 

 price has not varied much the last few j^ears. 



Question 85. Are these fish exported ; and if so, to what extent ? 



Answer. The Sacramento salmon are not exported at all, or only in a 

 few exceptional instances, the home demand being sufficient to exhaust 

 them. 



Question SG. Where is the principal market of these fish ! 



Answer. The principal market for them is the City of San Francisco. 



20. — OTHER SALMONID^E OF THE SACRAMENTO RIVER. 



The other Salomdnidcc of the Sacramento (main) River are confined to 

 one variety, which some call a salmon, but which the fishermen think is 

 a mountain-trout, which has dropped down the river farther than usual. 

 It is described in my catalogue of Smithsonian specimens under Xos. 12 

 and 13. It is quite rare in the Lower Sacramento. 



The common mountain-trout is found in abundance in all the cold 

 tributaries of the main river, and ])robably other varieties which have 

 not been reported. 



21. — OTHER SALMONID^T: of the M'CLOUD RIYER. 



Besides the salmon, there are, in the McCloud, three other varieties 

 of Salmon idw : 1, the common mountain-trout; 2, the wye-dar-deelcet ; 

 •and, 3, the "silver-trout." A full series of specimens of the first variety 

 has been collected and sent to the Smithsonian Institution. (See cata- 

 logue of specimens.) This fish is delicious eating, when prime, and is 

 quite abundant in the river, and ascends the small tributaries of the river 

 in vast quantities, to spawn, in the winter. 



The second variety is very rare in the Lower McCloud, but abundant 

 at its head-waters, and being a very handsome and delicious fish, is the 

 favorite fish for fifty miles around. (See Xo. 27 and l^o. 68 of Catalogue 

 of Smithsonian Specimens.) 



The third variety I only heard of as being at the sources of the 

 McCloud, It was described to me as a round, plump, silvery trout, and 

 not rare. 



I will here add that the other fish of the Sacramento (main) Eiver are 

 the white-perch, Sacramento pike or white-fish, (a cyprinoid,) sturgeon, 

 chub, liard-heads, split-tails, (herrings,) suckers, mud-fish. Of these the 

 white-fish, sucker, and mud-fish are found in the McCloud Eiver. (See 

 Catalogue of Specimens.) 



22. — LIST OF INDIAN WORDS OF THE M'CLOrD DIALECT. 



Although it does not properly come within the scope of this report, I 

 take the liberty to append a few words of the dialect of the McCloud 



* I am informed by tlie fish-dealers iu San Francisco that 10,000 fresh salmon a week 

 arc sent into that city from the San Joaqnin and the Sacramento Rivers in August, 

 when salmon are the cheapest and most abundant. 



