Kamloops Trout ; Stit-tse 



coming paler below, and nearly white on belly anteriorly where 

 only the margins of the scales are punctate; no silvery anywhere; 

 lower jaw dusky; a large black blotch on cheek between sub- 

 orbital and premaxillary; sides, top of head, back, and dorsal and 

 caudal fins with few small dark spots; pectorals dusky, slightly 

 spotted at base; anal somewhat dusky, without spots; ventrals 

 dusky with a few spots in the middle; adipose fin with a few 

 spots; lower fins all tipped with paler, probably yellowish red in 

 life; spots all very small and not confined to posterior part of 

 body. 



Kamloops Trout ; Stit-tse 



Salmo kamloops Jordan 



This is an interesting trout found in Kamloops, Okanogan, 

 Kootenai and other lakes tributary to the Fraser and upper 

 Columbia rivers. It is locally abundant, and is a fine large trout, 

 slender in form, graceful in appearance and movement, some- 

 what different from the common steelhead, but not distinguished 

 by any technical character of importance, and probably intergrading 

 fully with the latter. It is said to be a very fine game-fish, 

 which is taken chiefly by trolling with the spoon. 



Head 4^; depth 4^; D. 1 1 ; A. 11 or 12; scales 30-135 to 146- 

 26, 65 before the dorsal; gillrakers 6+n or 12; Br. 11 + 11. Body 

 elongate, somewhat compressed; maxillary extending beyond eye, 

 its length not quite half head; snout slightly rounded in profile, 

 the profile regularly ascending; teeth moderate, some of those in 

 the outer row in each jaw somewhat enlarged; opercles striate, 

 not much produced backward; dorsal fin rather low, its longest 

 ray slightly greater than base of fin, if in head; anal fin rather 

 larger than usual in trout, its outline slightly concave, its longest 

 ray greater than base of fin, and little more than half head; caudal 

 fin rather broad, distinctly forked, its outer rays about twice length 

 of inner; pectoral rather long, i-|- in head; ventrals moderate, if in 

 head; gillrakers comparatively short and few. Colour, dark olive 

 above, bright silvery below, the silvery colour extending some 

 distance below the lateral line, where it ends abruptly; middle of 

 side with a broad light-rose-colored band, covering about | 

 total depth of fish; back above with small black spots about the 

 size of pin heads, irregularly scattered, and somewhat more numer 

 ous posteriorly; a few faint spots on top of head; dorsal and 



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