344 GAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Habitat, Colorado to Arizona. This is by far the most abundant 

 species of the head-waters of the Green, Platte, and Yellowstone 

 Rivers, but is found in Medicine Lodge Creek, Idaho ; in Montana 

 and Nevada, near Fort Garland, Colorado ; San Juan River, Pagosa, 

 Colorado, Rio Grande River, Colorado ; Costilla, New Mexico ; Rio 

 Taos, New Mexico ; Chama River, New Mexico ; and the streams 

 of the White Mountains of Arizona. This species may be consid- 

 ered one of the gamiest of its family. Great sport can be had by 

 its capture, especially in the San Juan River, near the Pagosa Hot 

 Springs of Western Colorado. It takes the fly greedily at times, 

 more especially at evening, seeming to prefer a grasshopper in the 

 morning ; but it will bite at minnows and small grubs or worms. 

 Mr. Charles E. Aiken took one evening from a pool in the San 

 Juan River just at sunset, not less than twenty-five pjounds of this 

 fish with an old worn-out brown hackle fly. The tourist or sports- 

 man will find Colorado one of the best regions known for the cap- 

 ture of this fish. 



Utah Trout ; Southern Rocky Mountain Trout ; Speckled XxoMt.—Sahno 

 virginalis. Girard. 



Special characteristics. — Head medium, much like S. plettri- 

 ticus. Depth of body enters length 5.75, diameter of eye enters 

 side of head 4.5 times, muzzle obtuse ; caudal fin scarcely emar- 

 ginate. Branchiae, ix, ix. 



Color. — Greyish brown above, with purplish reflections, varying 

 much in shade and subcircular black spots ; beneath olivaceous, 

 unicolor. Spots on back frequently run into the conjunctiva of 

 the eye, a fact that has not been noticed regarding other species. 

 Habitat. — Southern Rocky Mountains, Utah, Colorado, and New 

 Mexico. 



This species may be distinguished from S. iridea, which it re- 

 sembles somewhat, by its smaller head, absence of dark spots on 

 top of head, and absence of caudal forking. 



These fish are taken in the Provo or Timpanagos River, near 

 Provo City, fifty miles from Salt Lake City, in Utah Lake, a mag- 

 nificent body of water near Provo, and at Pang-witch Lake, not 

 far from the town of Pang-witch, which lies in the valley of the 

 Sevier, southeast of Parowan, Utah. Any angler v.'ho should visit 



