REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 59 



ORDER No. 2,249. 



Trohibiting a'ny Person from Hunting, Pursuing, Selling, Killing, or Offering 

 FOR Sale, etc., any Mallard Duck, Widgeon, etc., between the First Day of 

 March and the First Day of September, of each Year. 



The People of the City and County of San Francisco do Ordain as follows: 



Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, betw^een the first day of March and 

 the first day of September, of each year, in the City and County of San Francisco, to 

 hunt, pursiie, kill, or destroy, or to buy, sell, barter, exchange, offer or expose for sale, 

 transport, or have in his possession, any mallard duck, widgeon, teal, redhead, pmtail, 

 gadwall, wood duck, or Jack Wilson snipe, commonly known as English snipe. 



Sec 2. Any person violating the provisions of this order shall be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and upon conviction tiiereof shall be punishable by a fine of not less than 

 fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or l)y imprisonment in the county 

 iail for not more than six months. 



JOHN A. RUSSELL, Clerk. 



Approved: San Francisco, July 22, 1890. 



Mayor, and ex officio President Board of Supervisors. 



It is the intention of the State Board of Fish Commissioners to en- 

 force the above ordinance by prosecuting every person who, between the 

 first day of March and the "first day of next September, shall sell, offer 

 or expose for sale, or have in his possession, any of the ducks men- 

 tioned in the above ordinance, or any Jack, or English snipe, whether 

 the same be held in cold storage or otherwise. 

 Issued by order of the Board. 



RAMON E. WILSON, 

 Secretary. 



Office of the Board of Fish Commissioners, ) 

 San Francisco, July 12, 1892. \ 

 [Bulletin No. 6.] 



Three specimens of trout caught in Mount Whitney Creek, on Mount 

 Whitney, by Mr. Harvey, of Lone Pine, Inyo County, California, and 

 by him given to Hon, George S. Mills, Fish Commissioner of Nevada, 

 who in turn sent them to Mr. William H. Shockley, were sent to Dr. 

 David S. Jordan, President of Leland Stanford, Junior, University, 

 with request that he classify them. The following is what Dr. Jordan 

 has to say of them: 



They are the famous Golden trout of Mount Whitney and the upper Kern River, 

 which has attracted the attention of anglers for some little time, but which has not yet, 

 so far as I know, received anv adequate notice in print. 



The trout were first brought to my notice by Lieutenant Wheeler's geological sur- 

 vey, which brought me specimens in 1877. These were not in very good condition. I 

 regarded them as of the same kind as the trout in the headwaters of the Colorado, at 

 the same time calling attention to the remarkable distribution of species on both sides 

 of the desert and the mountains. Later on I received other small specimens, but still in 

 such poor condition that I could do nothing more with them. The three received were in 

 perfect condition, and I have had a colored painting made of them. The fish is really 

 a distinct species of trout, entirely different from anj^ found elsewhere, either in the 

 Rocky ^Mountains or Sierra Nevadas. The very small size of its scales, the lack of teeth 

 on the hvoid bones, and the peculiar color markings, are all distinctive of this trout, 

 which will in time receive a name of its own. 



It seems evident, so far as one can judge of such matter, that this trout is descended 

 from the trout of western Colorado, which abound in the tributaries of Clear River, the 

 (ireen River, and the (irand River, and in the Cunnison district. But in being separated 

 from these trout it has undergone a considerable change, and one would think this 

 separation must have occurred before the Sierra Nevadas were elevated. It has already 

 been claimed by geologists that the Kern Valley, although on the California side of the 

 Sierras, is geologically a part of the Creat Basin. Its trout, at any rate, are wholly dif- 

 ferent from the Rainbow trout of California. 



Issued by order of the Board. 



RAMON E. WILSON, 



Secretary. 



