THE OOLDEN TROUT. 21 



Color ill life, liack and upper part of side light olive; tride ami hack profusely 

 eov(>red with small roundish Mack spots, these extending on top of iiead, vertical 

 fins, and on sitle helow lateral line: side with 10 large roundish parr-marks and a 

 hioadish niediiui hand ui' liolit-liri<k or terracotta red; lower part of side light 

 lemon yellow with a number of hluish Idack blotches, chietiy anteriorly, somewhat 

 larger than similar ones on back: belly from tip of lower jaw to ai;al tin rich orange- 

 red or cadmium, richest between pectoral and ventral lins, this band the full width of 

 the belly: no red dash on throat; suborbital pale rosy or purplish; cheek brassy, 

 with a large dark blotch; opercle rosy orange, olivaceous above; dorsal tin with 

 about hve rows of small round blacdc spots and a black border except aiiteriorl_y. 

 wliere the rays are tipped with a light-i'osy border; pectoral light yellowish; ventral 

 and anal reddish, with broad white edge; caudal jn-ofusely spotted with black like 

 tlu' dorsal Kii. 



In spirits all the bright colors have faded, l)ut the bhudv spots remain distinct. 

 These spots are largest on the caudal pedunt'le, over which they are evenly distributed. 

 They are also pretty evenly distributed over the entire side and top of head; the 

 space along the lateral line, however, has fewer spots. Those below the lateral line 

 extend more than halfway' to the belly and are somew hat smaller than those above. 

 About fourteen spots show on side of head. 



There is not nnich \ ariation in color, as shown by examination of many examples. 

 In all. tht> black spots completely cover the caudal i)eduncle and the entire length of 

 side from median line of l)ack to some distance below the lateral line: the top and sides 

 of the hea<l are always spotted. The middle line of the side and the b(dly are always 

 richly colored, the parr-marks always present, and the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins 

 bright-edged. No con.spicuous red dash was observed on the lower jaw in any of the 

 specimens from South Fork of Kaweah, Soda Creek, or Wet Meadow Creek. Imt 

 among those from Coyote Creek were some showing considerable coloi'. 



.\ cotype was described as follows: Back and top of head light lu-own with numer- 

 ous small black spots extending on dorsal and caudal tins and on side distinctly to 

 lateral line and below it less plainly, those on caudal peduncle largest and blackest; 

 l)Iack spots also on top of head and halfway down sides on opercles and check; 

 middle of side with a broad red or orange-red band extending from just behind base 

 of |ie<-toral to about middle of anal, broadest in middle portion; a large blotch <>i 

 same color on opercle and some on cheek; thirteen distinct parr-marks on side, a 

 row of smaller similar spots below; lower part of side Ifght brown; a broad reddish 

 or orange band along ventral line from throat to vent, the anterior part yellowish; 

 dorsal lin covered with small black spots except anterior u)ipi>r margin, which is light 

 pink, w hole distal edge, except the pink, margined with black, not (|uite continuous; 

 pectoral olivaceous, with pink tinge, overlaid with dusky; ventrals same color as 

 pectorals, but the pink more pronounced and the exterior distal edge white; anal 

 same as ventral, bordered with white; caudal spotted like the dorsal, but no pink 

 edge; adipose same as back, margin black, oih^ spot on base. 



In alcohol all of the specimens from South Fork Meadows ■ire profusely covered 

 with small, round, well-defined black spots on caudal peduncle, side, both above and 

 below lateral line, and on top of head. The dorsal, anal, and ventral are light-edged 

 in all. These specimens all seem to differ from South Fork of Kern specimens in the 



