132 EXPEDITION TO POINT BAEROW, ALASKA. 



COREGONIDJ3. 

 13. COREGONTJS LAURETT.2E Bean. 



This species appears to be abundant in the large rivers (Meade 1 liver and Kuaru) flowing into 

 the Arctic Ocean east of Point Barrow, as large numbers were brought in frozen by the Eskimo 

 deer hunters, generally badly mutilated and unfit for preservation. 



The rivers are visited in October and early November, and again in February, .March, and 

 April, when the fish are caught in gill-nets set under the ice. Many natives also visit the rivers 

 when they are open in summer and find fish plenty, but bring none home. The species also occurs 

 in summer in the shoal water bays east of Point Barrow, and is taken rather sparingly in gill-nets 

 at Pergniak, Elson Bay, where wo also caught a few young ones in our seine. Captain Hercndeen 

 visited the rivers in October, 1882, and brought in several specimens of this species in good condi- 

 tion, with other whitefish. 



14. COREGONUS NELSONI Bean. 



We obtained this species of large size from the rivers, where it appears abundant. It was not 

 obtained at Elson Bay. 



15. COREGONUS KEWICOTTI Milner. 



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This species appears to be the most abundant at the rivers, and attains a large size. It was 

 not obtained in Elson Bay. 



SALMONID.3E. 

 16. SALVELINUS MALMA (Walb.) Jordan & Gilbert. 



In the autumn of 1882 we obtained from a native a piece of the dried skin of one of these 

 fishes. He said that he took it in the sea, near the mouth of the Colville River, and that they were 

 so plenty that they fed the dogs with them. 



Just as we were preparing to abandon the station in August, 1883, the Eskimos brought in a 

 couple of large specimens of this species which had been taken in the gill-nets at Pergniak. They 

 were a very pale, "sea-run" form, with the spots hardly perceptible. 



When we were at Unalaska, in September, 1883, Dr. Wilson, of Lieutenant Schwatkii's party, 

 and I found this trout plenty in the stream back of the village. They were rather pale and silvery 

 as if in the habit of running to the sea, and took small, dark flies greedily. 



They are also plenty and large in the small lakes at Plover Bay, Eastern Siberia. 



17. ONCHORHYNCHUS ep. 



A large salmon was brought. down from Perguiak in July, 1882, but was mutilated and was 

 need for food. The season of 1883 was so backward that we were imable to secure any specimens 

 before abandoning the station. 



I suspect this to have been 0. nerM. 



18. ONCHORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA (Walb.) Gill and Jordan. 



This species occurs sparingly in the salt water at Pergniak, Elson Bay, where it is taken in 

 the gill-nets, in July and August. 



