California Fish and Game 



"CONSERVATION OF WILD LIFE THROUGH EDUOATION" 



Volume 20 SACRAMENTO, APRIL, 1934 No. 2 



CONTENTS 



Page 

 PIITTE TROUT {Saimo sele7iiris Snyder) Frontispiece 



A NEW CALIFORNIA TROUT John O. Snyder 105 



STREAM IMPROVEMENT A. E. BurghduffllZ 



NOTES ON THE FOOD OF TROUT P. R. Needham 119 



STREAM AND BAY POLLUTION STUDIES Paul A. Shaio 128 



THE LAKE ALMANOR HATCHERY J. H. Vogt 130 



CHANGES IN SARDINE FISHING GEAR IN THE MONTEREY REGION, 



WITH A NOTE ON EXPANSION OF FISHING GROUNDS___J. B. Phillips 134 



THE KERN COUNTY ELK REFUGE Lewis A. Burtch 140 



PORCUPINE CONTROL ON FORESTS OF CALIFORNIA Joseph Keyes 148 



EDITORIALS AND NOTES 151 



STATISTICS- 

 STATEMENT OF Income 169 



Statement of Expenditures 170 



Violations of Fish and Game Laws 1T3 



Number of Hunters Killing Two Deer, 1933 1T4 



Hunting Accidents, 1933 175 



Sbven-Ybar Record of Deer Kill in California Between 174-175 



Statistics on Deer Kill, Season 1933 Between 174-175 



Fresh Fishery Products 176 



A NEW CALIFORNIA TROUT 



By John 0. Snyder 



HE REMARKABLE galaxy of brilliantly colored 

 California trout has been enlarged by the addition of 

 another which takes a conspicuous place amongst its 

 fellows. It is named Salmo seleniris* for a fancied 

 resemblance of its evanescent tints to the lunar rainbow. Piute Trout 

 has been suggested as a common name, recalling other aboriginal 

 inhabitants of the region in which it is found. 



* A brief description of the species appears in tlie Proceedings of the Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XX, No. 11, pp. 471-472, Nov. 16, 

 1933. In the parlance of trinomial nomenclature this form would be called Salmo 

 henshaivi seleniris. The writer can see no particular advantage in writing the 

 name thus. Here it leads to no better understanding of relationships, and elsewhere 

 if trinomials are used in relation to western trout their application will often 

 have to be based on mere speculation. 

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