VI.] 



THE GARBUSA. 



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the back being dark greenish, the sides silvery, and the belly white, 

 but it differs in the greater blnntuess of the rostrum and the pale 

 colour of the flesh. It appears, as a rule, to run smaller than the 

 Krasna : its area of distribution is said to be similar. It arrives at 

 the mouth of the Kamschatkan rivers some little time after the 

 Krasna and Tchervitchi, but its advent coincides more or less with 

 the Garbusa or Hump-backed Salmon. About mid- July ^ this 

 species ascends the streams, and is caught in great numbers. Later, 

 the kelts show much the same changes as those of the Krasna, the 

 jaws becoming much hooked ; but they never acquire the deep and 



KELT OF GARBUSA. {O/icoi-Jiynchus jJToteus.) 



generally-diffused red of the latter species, that colour being usually 

 confined to small patches on the belly and under surface. A species 

 of bread is said by Kittlitz and others to be made of the Haiko, but 

 we did not see it. 



4. Oncorhynchus proteus (Pall.) is known to the inhabitants of 

 the country as the Garbusa or Hump-back. On arrival from the 

 sea this fish is said to be without any trace of the extraordinary 

 development of the back from wliich it takes its name. It is with- 

 out spots, except upon the tail — which is deeply forked — and is 

 very silvery. It is said to frequent the rivers of the Okhotsk Sea 

 and those of some of the Aleutian Islands, as well as Kamschatka. 

 Pioughly speaking, its length is from eighteen to twenty-four inches, 



^ I have also got "mid-June" in my notes, but I think the date given above is 

 probably the correct one. 



