HENDERSON 

 HARRINGTON 



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The present absence of trout has been locally attributed to a heavy 

 flood which is said to have washed them away. There is evidence 

 along the bottom-lands that such a flood did occur, but that it 

 washed the trout out is highly improbable. It seems much more 

 probable that it may have filled the pools that once made it possil)le 

 for trout to survive protracted dry seasons, though it is not impossible 

 that the fillmg is due to the fact that the desiccation of the country 

 has at last reached a point where the stream is not able to take care 

 of the debris arising from lateral erosion of the valley. It is not at 

 all improbable that the creek may have completely dried up during 

 some particularly dry cycle within the last 20 years. In any event 

 we must believe that there were trout a quarter of a century ago, 

 and so we have no reason to doubt that they existed durmg the 

 occupancy of the valley by the ancient mhabitants, though that is 

 not a necessary conclusion. Of course we have no definite evidence 

 as to the species, but it was almost certainly the Rio Grande Basin 

 trout {Salmo myTciss spilurus Cope). 



Cope ^ says he saw Gila pandora Cope ( = Richardsonius pulcJiellus 

 pandora Cope — Cockerell) in the creek below Ojo Caliente. Cope and 

 Yarrow ^ reported the following species from nearby Rio Grande 

 drainage localities, to which species we have applied probable modern 

 nomenclature, placing in parentheses the names under which they 

 were reported : 



Pantosteus pleheius Baird & Girard (P. jarrovii Cope). Sucker. 



Taos, San Ildefonso, and Tierra Amarilla. 

 Hyhognathus nuchalis AgSLSsiz. Silvery Minnow. San Ildef onso. 

 Richardsonius pulcJiellus pandora (Cope) (Gila pandora) . North- 

 ern Rio Grande Dace. Near San Iklefonso. 

 Notropis simus Cope (Alburnellus simus). Rio Grande Shiner. 



San Iklefonso. 

 Notropis dilectus Girard (Alburnellus jemezanus Cope). San 



Iklefonso. 

 Notrojns lutrensis Baird and Girard (Hypsilepis iris Cope). San 

 Ildef onso. 



1 Cope, E. D., Report upon the Extinct Vertebrata Obtained in New Mexico by Parties of the Expe- 

 dition of 1874, Gcog. Surv. W. of 100th Mend. (Wheeler Survey), iv, pt. n, p. 21. See also Ann. Rcpt.for 1875, 

 p. 66, 1875. 



2 Cope, E. D., and Yarrow, 11. C, Report upon the Collections of Fishes Made in Portions of Nevada, 

 Utah, California, Colorado, New Meixico, and Arizona, During the Years 1S71, 1872, 1873, and 1874, Gcog. 

 Surv. W. oflQOth Mcrid. (Wheeler Survey), v, pp. 635-703, 1875. See also Cockerell, T. D. A., The Nomen- 

 clature of the American Fishes Usually Called Leuciscus and Rutilus, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, pp. 

 215-17, 1909; The Fishes of the Rocky Mountain Region, Univ. Colo. Studies, v, pp. 159-178, 1908; Jordan, 

 David Starr, and E vermann, Barton AVarren, The Fishes of North and Middle America, Bull. 47', U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 4 vols., 1896-1900. 



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