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FISH DISTRIBUTED BY THE FISH COMMISSION. 1043 



18. Salmo fario Linue. Eiver trout. 



Sahnojario Tcrtox, Brit. Faiiii., p. 103; Donovan, Brit. Fish., iv, pi. 85; 



Flkming, Brit. Anini., p. Iwl ; Eiciiardson, F. B.-A., Ill, 18:?6, p. 144, pi. 



92, fig. 3 A and B (head); Jenyns, Man. Vert., p. 424; Yarrell, Brit. 



Fish., 2d edit., ii., p. 85, and 3d edit., i, p. 261 ; Day, Fish. Great Brit, and 



Ireland, Part V, 1882, p. 95, pis. CIX, fig. 3, CXIII, CXIV, and CXVI, 



fig. 1. 

 :Salmo fario atiHotiii Gunthkr, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VI, 1866, p. 64. 



A non-ujigralory species, inhabiting unuicrous fresh waters of Central Europe, 

 Sweden, and England : rivers of the maritime Alps (Giinther). Recently intro- 

 dnced into America. 



19. Oncorhynchus chouicha (Wall).) Jor. & Gilb. Quinnat salmon. 



Salmo tshawjitscha Walraum, Ait. Gen. Pise, 1792, p. 71. 



Oncorhynchm choweecha Goode, Game Fi.slies U. S., part ten, p. 41, with colored 

 plate. 



OncorlnjnvhuH choiiu ha J oiiD an &. Gilbert, Sjn. Fish. N. A., 188.3, p. 30(); Bean, 

 Bull. No. 27, U. S. Nat. Mus., Sec. F, 1883, pp. 32, 38. 



Salmo orientalis Pallas, Zoiig. Koss. Asiat., Ill, 1831, p. 367 ; Cuvier & Valen- 

 ciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XXI, 1848, ]». 356. 



Oncorhjiiichus orientalis GOnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VI, 1S66, p. 159 (fig. of 

 head). 



Salmo quinnat Richardson, F. B.-A., Ill, 1836, p. 219; STorer, Syn. Fish. N. 

 A., 1846, p. 196; Suckley, Nat. Hist. Wash. Terr., p. 321 ; Rep. U. S. Com'r 

 Fish and Fisheries, Part II, 1874, p. 105; GiRARD, U. S. Pacif. R. R Exped., 

 Fish., 1858, p. 306, pi. LXVII. 



Oncorhi/JichuH quinnat GCiNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VI, 1866, p. 158. 

 West coast of the United States from Monterey Bay northward, ascending the 



Sacramento, Columbia, and other rivers in great numbers ; northward to Bering 



Strait. Extensively reared artificially by the U. S. Fish Commission on the 



Pacific coast, and widely distributed across seas. 



20. Clupea sapidissima Wilson. Shad. 



ClujH'a Kajyidissima WihSON, Rees's Encycloped. (Amer. edit.); catalogued, but 

 not described [See SxoJtER, Syn. Fi^h. N. A., 1846, p. 206]; Rafinesque, 

 Amer, Month. Mag., Vol. II, Jan. 181-., p. 205; Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. 

 Fish. N. A., 1.^83, p. 267. 

 Clupea aloaa MitchIll, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, p. 449. 

 Alosa vuJtiaris Storer, Rep. Fish., &.c., Mass., 1839, p. 116. 

 Alosa prwHtahihs De Kay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., Fish., 1842, p. 255, pi. 15, fig. 41 ; 



Storer, Hist. Fish., Mass., 1867, p. 154, pi. XXVI, fig. 2. 

 Alosa saj/ic/mh/ia Linsley, Cat. Fish. Conn., Silliman's Jouru., XLVII; Storer 

 Syn. Fish. N. A., 1846, p. 206; Gill, Cat. Fish. N. A., 1873, p. 33; Jordan, 

 Man. Vert. E. U. S., ed. i, 1876, p. 265, and ed. ii, 1878, p. 278. 

 Atlantic coast of North America from Newfoundland to Florida, ascending 

 rivers to spawn ; Gulf of Mexico, ascending rivers of the Mississippi Valley 

 (since its introduction by the U. S. Fish Commfssiou) ; Pacific coast of the 

 United States from California to Oregon ; introduced by the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission from the East. 



21. Clupea vernalis Mitchill. Branch herring. 



Clupea vernalis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, p. 454; Jor- 

 dan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, p. 267. 

 Pomolobus vernalis Goode & Bean, Bull, Essex Inst., 1879, p. 24. 

 Clupea pseudoha-enfjus Wilson, Rees's Eucyclop. 

 Pomolobus pseuiloharengiis Gill (part). Rep. U. S. Com'r Fish and Fisheries, Part 



I, 187 3, p. 811. 

 Alosa vernalis Storer, Rep. Fish, &c., Mass., 1839, p. 114. 

 Atlantic coast of North America from Newfoundland to Florida, ascending 



