16 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Kaweah, and in Marl)l(" Fork: and («) the common cut-lliroat {Salmo clarHi), inti'o- 

 duccd into at loast sonir streams of the region and loiuul by us in Marble Forli of the 

 Kaweah. 



The Coyote Creek trout are somewhat anomalous in that some of them show 

 considerable red on tlie throat. It may become neccssai-y to separate these i-cd- 

 throated trout as a distinct species, but for the present the (piestion of their distinct- 

 ness is held in abeyance. 



The following- is a systematic list of the fishes thus far known from tlie Kern 

 River region: 



I. Pantosteus araeopus (Jordan). Hdrd-lieiuJ Sm-l-fr. 



The type specimens of this sucker were collected by Prof. 11. W. Henshaw in 

 1876 in the South Fork of Kern River. They are No. 312ii8, U. S. National Museum, 

 and are 13 and 9 inches long, respectively. Other young examples were obtained 

 by Mr. Henshaw in Carson River, Nevada. In 1891 Mr. Vernon Bailey collected a 

 specimen in Reese River, Nevada. These are the oidy specimens that iiasc been 

 recorded. The species was not seen by us. 



Caloslomun arxopim Jordan, A Synopsis of the Family Catostomidx, in Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 17:;. 

 1878. Jordan & Henshaw, Report- upon the Fishes collected during the years 1875, 187(), :im1 

 1877, in California and Nevada, in Annual Report of Chief of Enfiineers, U. S. Anny, for ls7s. 

 Appendix N N, p. 1610, pi. in. CilL.Tt, Kept. ..n Fishes of the Death Valley Expe.litioii, in 

 North American Fauna, No. 7, p. 22n, .\l:iy :;i. isii;;. 



Pantonleus ar.ropuK. Jerdan & Fvermann. I'islies Moitli and Jliddle .-\.M]erii-a, 172, 1896. 



2. Catostomus occidentalis Ayres. Sacrummto Sncl-er. 



Common in all the larger streams of the region. Several were seen in the 

 Middle Fork of the Kaweah near Threerivers and in the North Fork at Redstone 

 Park. One of our party caught one with his hands in an irrigating ditch near Red- 

 stone Park July 11. Exceedingly abundant in Kern Lake and common in Kern 

 River in all suitable places. At the head of the lake is a good deal of gras.sv border 

 in water up to IS inches deep. In this the suckers were common and many were 

 seined. In the lower part of the lake on the west or right side are many logs l^'ing 

 in water 1 to 6 feet deep. Among these logs large suckers were very abundant. 

 When not disturbed they lay quietly in one place or swam slowly about at tiie 

 surface, nosing around evidently in search of food, sucking off the algae growing on 

 the logs. Sometimes they might be seen even lying on top of logs that were entirely 

 submerged. As many as twenty or thirty might be seen in one bunch, and there 

 must have been more than a thousand all told among these logs. Some of them 

 were veiy large, certainly at least 2 feet long. One example, 23 inches long, had the 

 scales 10-70-9; dorsal 12; anal 8; upper lip with 2 rows of papillse, the lower with 



3. Mylopharodon conocephalus (Raird & Girard). Kdinul,. Clml,; ^•Lalc Fixh."' 



This lish was found in all the forks of tiie Kaweah immediately above Three- 

 rivers, anfl doubtless occurs even nK)re abimdantiy below that place. The largest 

 and most numerous examples were seen in the Middle Fork. It will take almost 



