Nissuee Trout 265 



The " No-shee " trout, now under consideration, 

 is reputed to be, by the same authorities, an in- 

 termediate between the Kern River trout and 

 the McCloud River trout, the latter being slightly 

 different in appearance from the regular rainbow 

 trout. Just here it seems proper to give the 

 basis of specific classification, accepted by fish 

 savants : 



" If one kind of fish and all known variations 

 of it possess certain characteristics, and another 

 kind and all its known variations have other dis- 

 tinct characteristics, each will be called a species 

 and receive a scientific name." 



In connection with the above lucid explanation 

 of specific classification, it is also stated : " That 

 when new variations of each species are found 

 with the variations approaching each other, it 

 will become more difficult to say where in the 

 scale each species ends and what the character- 

 istics of each species are. The more numerous 

 these links between species and the more com- 

 plete the scale between them, the more difficult 

 it becomes to say to what species a variety be- 

 longs. The species become merged into one, 

 and all varieties must be considered as one 

 species. This is what has happened to the cut- 



