126 KAMSGHATKA. [chap. 



Kamschatkans ^ as the Krasnaya riba or red fish, but the name is 

 invariably shortened to Krasna. In shape and general appearance 

 it resembles our own salmon. On its first appearance in the rivers 

 it is silvery, the belly white, the back dark with a bluish shade and 

 almost without spots. In length it reaches three feet or more, and 

 large examples would, I should think, scale over thirty pounds. 

 It is found in the Okhotsk and Kamschatkan seas, and extends 

 across to the American coast.^ In the peninsula it seems to frequent 

 large and small rivers alike, ascending the streams about the end 

 of May or beginning of June, later than the Tchervitchi, but before 



KELT OP HAIKO. {Oiicorhynchus Icujocephalus.) 



the Haiko and Garbusa. Towards the end of August the Krasna 

 is completely out of condition. It becomes a bright red all over 

 like a gold fish, and both jaws get prolonged and hooked, while at 

 the same time the teeth are wonderfully enlarged. None of the 

 fish ever reach the sea after spawnmg — at least so we were informed 

 by the natives ; — and as this species is one of the most plentiful of 

 all the Kamschatkan salmon, their bodies strew the banks in nearly 

 as great numbers as the Garbusa. 



3. Oncorliynchus lagoceplialus (Pall.) — The trivial name of this 

 fish is given by Steller ^ as Kaiko, but we found it invariably known 

 as the Haiko. It is not unlike the preceding species (0. lycaodon), 



1 I have here and elsewhere used this term comprehensively as " an inhabitant of 

 Kamschatka. " It should not be confounded with Kamschatdale — the name applied to 

 one of the original races inhabiting the peninsula 



" Steller, " Beschreibung von dem Lande Kamtschatka." 



3 Oih cit. p. 157. 



