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laid with dusky; ventrals same color as pectorals, but the pink more 

 pronounced and the exterior distal edge white; anal same as ventral, 

 bordered with white; caudal spotted like the dorsal, but no pink edge; 

 adipose same as bads', margin black, one spot on base. 



In alcohol ;ill of the specimens from South Fork Meadows arc pro- 

 fusely covered with small, round, well-defined black spots on caudal 

 peduncle, side, both above and below lateral line, and on top of head. 

 The dorsal, anal, and ventral are light-edged in all. These specimens 

 all seem to differ from South Fork of Kern specimens in the greater 

 number of spots, and particularly in the presence of spots below the 

 lateral line. They differ from the six specimens obtained in South 

 Fork of Kaweah near Three Rivers in having more spots below the 

 lateral line and having the spots much more nearly round; besides, 

 those from Three Rivers in life were decidedly different in color, as 

 shown by the life-color notes. 



The collection contains 10 specimens from the South Fork of the 

 Kaweah River at South Fork Meadows and 3 from Soda Creek at 

 Quinns Horse Camp, about 5 miles distant. Besides these specimens, 

 we examined perhaps 25 others from those two places. They range in 

 length from 5.5 to 7.75 inches and are quite uniform in size. They 

 show little or no variation in color from that indicated by the preceding 

 descriptions. 



The collection also contains five specimens from Wet Meadow Creek, 

 which are in some respects the finest that were obtained. They range 

 in length from 7 to 9.75 inches and show some variation in spotting. 

 The smallest two of these are more sparsely spotted than any of the 

 others ; nevertheless they show spots the full length of the side and 

 some spots below the lateral line. The largest specimen (cotype No. 

 53398, U. S. N. M., 9.75 inches long) is rather more completely spotted 

 than the type. The two other Wet Meadow Creek specimens (cotypes), 

 although larger than the type, are spotted very much like it. 



A large number of examples were examined from Little Kern, taken 

 chiefly in the vicinity of Broder's cabin; of these, three were saved. 

 They agree in all respects with those from South Fork Meadows. 



Forty-four excellent specimens were obtained from Coyote Creek. 

 These were taken at various places between the headwaters and the 

 mouth of the stream. This creek has several falls which doubtless at 

 present are barriers to the ascent of fish; nevertheless trout are found 

 throughout the entire length of the stream, and are abundant imme- 

 diately below and above each of the falls. Evidently the peopling of 

 the entire stream was accomplished before the falls were formed or 

 became impassable barriers. An examination of the large series of 

 specimens shows them to be a very perplexing lot; the amount of 

 variation among them is very great, and it is not without hesitation that 



