THE OOLDEN TROUT. 9 



wide, nu'iiiuleiiny- through gra.ssy ine:i(low!S, and witli no falls or rapids of any 

 importance. It is woU .supplied with trout of <;ood size and brilliant coloration. 



(I'l. IV, tio-. ;••) 



S(„/ii i',\ik is a somewhat larger western tributar}' of the Little Kern. It ri.ses 

 on the divide just west of Quinns Hor.se Camp, and flows southeast about 6 miles 

 before uniting- with the Little Kern. Near its mouth it receives a small tributary 

 from Pecks Canyon. Soda Creek at Quinns Horse Camp is much the same sort of 

 a stream as the South Fork of the Kaweah at South Fork Meadows. It is perliaps a 

 little more turbulent, but has, however, no impassable falls. Ti'out are abundant. 

 The distance from South Fork Meadows to Quinns Horse Camp is about 5 miles. 

 The elevation of the summit of the pass between the two is 9,680 feet, as given on a 

 United States ^,.>.)l^^■i(■al Survey bench mark. 



Ciijnt, Ci;,k. This i- a cnn-idcraMc stream, having its rise on the Western 

 Divide bet\\e(Mi tlie luaiii Kern and the Little Kei'ii. Flowing east and southeast a 

 distance of 6 or 8 miles, it enters Kern River just below Soda Spring. Its upper 

 course is through some small meadows, where the stream flows with a gentle current, 

 but the greater portion is through a rugged canvon, in which the descent is very 

 rapid and the -t icam very turliulent. In drops into Kern Canyon in a series of falls 

 of consider.ihh' size and much beauty. The first (lowermost) of the.se falls is at the 

 edge of Kern Canyon and has a height of 19 feet. The channel of the stream is 

 blocked by a huge boulder, around which the water pours, only a small amount 

 creeping under the boulder. The second and third falls are about ^50 feet above the 

 first. The second is about 50 feet high; the third, or Broder Falls", 63 feet, and the 

 distance between them about 50 feet. (PI. vii, figs. 17 and 18.) About one-half 

 mile above the thii'd falls is another, the fourth, which has a vertical descent of about 

 35 feet. Two hundred feet failher up is a fifth fall, with a drop of about 30 feet. 

 (PI. VII, fig. 19, and pi. viii, fig. 20.) 



Among these various falls are excellent ti'out pools, and examples of trout were 

 caught from each of them by some of the members of our party. Above the fifth 

 falls are many others of smaller size, about and among which are numerous deep, 

 relatively quiet pools where trout may be found. As several of these falls now 

 constitute barriers wholly effective in preventing the further luscent of fishes, it is 

 evident that the trout had become distributed the full length of the stream before 

 any of the falls became impassable. 



The trout of Coyote Creek show greater variation than is foiuid among those 

 of any other .stream in this region. Those taken from below any one of the impas- 

 sable falls can, as a whole, be distinguished from those above the falls, and it may 

 well be that the efi'ects of isolation are beginning to show on the trout in the difl'erent 

 parts of the stream. 



Whitne;/ Crrck. — This creek has its sources in the snowbanks and tarns on the 

 west and southern slopes of Mount AMiitney. whence it flows a trifle .south of west to 

 Kern River. The total length is about 8 miles. At Crabtree Meadow a small trib- 

 utary joins it from the south. Near the head of Whitney Creek are five considerable 

 little lakes or mountain tarns besides a dozen tiny ones. Above Crabtree Meadow 



1 Named for Mr. John Broder, of Redstone Park, Tulare County, Cal., in recognition of the active interest which he has 

 taken in stocking with trout the barren waters of Tulare County. 



