Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. :; 1 .| 



Uevo it spawns in the spring, as in the middle of October, when I left 

 Lake Southerlaud, the eggs of the females we caught Were not enlar-.-d. 

 and no indication of the approach of the spawning season." (Meek ) 

 Length 1 to 2 feet. 



Known only from Southerland Lake, Washington, where 23 specimens 

 were collected in 1898 by Professor Elliot. 



("Named for Dr. D. S. Jordan, president of Stanford University, who, 

 more than anyone else, has studied our Western trout/') (Meek.) 

 Salmo clarkiijordani, MEEK, Notes 011 a collection of cold-blooded Vertebrates from tin- 

 Olympic Mountains: Field Columbian Museum Publication 31, Zoological St-ri. >. 

 Vol. I, Xo. 12, 229, February, 1899, Southerland Lake, Washington. (Type, No. 2012^ 

 Field Columbian Museum.) 



Page 500. Before Sahno irideus, Gibbons, insert the following: 

 480 (a). SALMO BATHCECETOR, Meek. 



(LOXG-HEADED TROUT OF CRESCENT LAKE.) 



Head 3.5 to 3.8; depth 5.10 to 5.75; eye 6.75 to 7.60; snout 3.33; maxil- 

 lary 1.66; scales 150 to 152; gill-rakers 7 "or 8 + 11 to 13; branch iostegals 

 9 to 11; D. 10; A. 11. Body elongate, slender; head much pointed; an- 

 terior margin of upper jaw slightly above axis of the body; maxillary 

 very long and very slender, reaching considerably beyond posterior part 

 of the orbit, its greatest width 7 in its length; about 24 teeth on maxil- 

 lary; teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines large, the dentition much 

 stronger than in specimens of Salmo gairdneri crescentis of same size; man- 

 dible very strong; opercle very broad and contains the eye 1A; preopercu- 

 lurn narrow, less than diameter of the eye; gill-rakers very short and thick; 

 last ray of dorsal less than half longest rays, third ray longer than base 

 of tin; when depressed, second and third ray tips reach beyond middle of 

 last dorsal ray; pectoral If in head; ventrals 2. Color much as in S. 

 gairdneri crescentis. except lighter. Head, body, and tail profusely spotted 

 with black spots; ventrals'and pectorals dark. No. 2036 (Field Museum) 

 has fewer spots, none on anal and pectoral ; anterior part of upper jaw very 

 dark, darker than in the larger specimen. This species differs from S. 

 gairdneri crescentis in being much more slender, its back much less elevated, 

 head more slender and pointed, gill-rakers shorter, maxillary straighter, 

 narrower, and longer. The general color pattern is the same, except 

 that this species is less spotted and lighter. No red on the under jaw; 

 the dentition is much stronger in this species than in S. gairdneri cresccnti*. 

 (Meek.) 



Prof. D. G. Elliot gives the, following interesting note on this trout: 

 "This is a deep-water fish, keeping always near the bottom. Lake 

 Crescent is of great depth, in some places over 700 feet, and doubtless 

 much more in others not yet ascertained. The present species, unlike 

 other trout, does not come to the surface, as I was informed, at any 

 season of the year, and will not of course take a fly, or indeed a spoon, or 

 any kind of lure. The only way it can be captured is by sot-lines sunk 

 within a foot of the bottom, and it seems that there are only a few places 

 in the lake where it can be caught even by this means. The specimens 



