238 The Trouts of America 



Within the last few years two subspecies of 

 the cut-throat trouts have been discovered in 

 Lake Sutherland, in the state of Washington; 

 also a distinct species of the salmon-trouts in 

 Crescent Lake of the same state. As neither of 

 these fish has been sought or taken by any one 

 except an occasional angling tourist, and by their 

 discoverer, Professor Meek, an intelligent, practi- 

 cal, and diligent ichthyologist, whose interest 

 and zeal in his science does not blunt his love 

 of angling, I am dependent upon him for the 

 annexed notes of their characteristics, which ere 

 many years will doubtless become as familiar 

 to the anglers of the Pacific slope as the com- 

 mon cut-throat or the rainbow. 



The salmon-trout of Lake Sutherland (Salmo 

 clarkii declivifrons) resembles very much the 

 blueback trout of Lake Crescent, described on a 

 subsequent page, and is easily recognized, ac- 

 cording to the authority of Professor Elliot, by 

 the sharply curved upper outline of the fore part 

 of the body, by the dark blue patch on the cheek, 

 and by the gape of the mouth, which is nearly 

 horizontal, more so than in any other trout. 

 Professor Meek states that it is a game fish, 

 " takes the fly and leaps out of the water." 



