388 GAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Will bite at anything, grasshoppers, grubs, flies, artificial and 

 natural, pork, fishes' fins or eye. Are quite gamy. 



Elegant Chub. — Gila elegans. Baird and Girard. 



Specific characters. — Body slenderer than preceding, tail at- 

 tenuated ; head one-fifth total length, eye small, entering length 

 of head seven times. Margin of dorsal fin nearer snout than base 

 of caudal; scales larger than in G. robusta. Color, reddish- 

 brown above ; metallic yellow^ or white beneath ; fins dull olive. 

 Habitat, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Fort Bridger, Green 

 River, Wyoming. Remarks as to capture of the preceding species 

 will apply to this, in fact to all of this genus. 



Chub.— G//a gracilis. Baird and Girard. 



This species is intermediate between G. robusta and G. elegans 

 but the scales are smaller than in either. Color, same as preced- 

 ing. Habitat, Arizona, Green River, Wyoming. Is exceedingly 

 abundant, especially in the White River, Arizona, frequenting the 

 deep pools ; will bite at anything. The fish is firm and sweet, but 

 full of bones. Where this species resorts few, if any, other fish 

 will be found except its congeners. 



Graham's Chub. — Gila grahami. Baird and Girard. 



Specific characters: Body sub-fusiform, compressed ; head 

 enters four and one half in total length. Margin of dorsal fin 

 nearer insertion of caudal than snout. Caudal deeply forked. 

 Color. Similar to preceding. Habitat. Fort Bridger, Wyo- 

 ming, New Mexico, Arizona. 



Is abundant, especially in Arizona ; takes any bait. 



Pescadito. — Gila pandora. Cope. 



Specific characters : Head one-fifth total length ; eye enters 

 length of side of head six times ; dorsal fin nearer base of 

 caudal than end of muzzle. Color. Silvery above. Habitat. San 

 Juan River, Colorado, Rio Grartde, and affluents, New Mexico. 



This species is the most abundant in New Mexico, and is 

 readily taken with any bait. 



Gila Q-AXi^.—Gila gula. Cope. 



This chub resembles the preceding, but has larger head which 



