362 GAME FISH OF NORTH AMERICA. 



S.proteus. Hump-backed salmon. (Alaska). 



S. cooperi. Cooper's salmon. (Columbia River.) 



S. dermatlnus. Behring's Sea salmon. 



S. consuetus. Yukon River. 



S. cams. Dog salmon ; spotted salmon. (Puget Sound.) 



S. quinnat. (California salmon.)- 



S. confluenttis. 



S. aurora. Red char. (Columbia River.) 



S. argyrtus. 



S. paucidens. Weak-toothed salmon. (Fraser River.) 



S. tsuppitch. White salmon. (Columbia River.) 



S. clarkii. Clark's salmon. (Columbia River.) 



S. gairdneri. Gairdner's salmon. (Columbia River.) 



S. richardi. Richards' salmon. (Fraser River.) 



The S. quihnai of the Pacific Slope is a type of the salmon ot 

 that coast, and is possessed of similar anatomical characteristics, 

 differing but slightly in form, color, and markings from the S. sal- 

 ar of the Atlantic Slope, and of the tributaries of the Great St. 

 Lawrence Basin. Description by Richardson, see his " Fauna 

 Boreali Americana." 



"General tint of back, bluish-grey, changing after a few hours' 

 removal from the water, to mountain green ; sides, ash-grey, with 

 silvery lustre ; belly, white ; back above lateral line studded with 

 irregular rhomboidal or star like spots, some of them ocellated, re- 

 sembling an eye ; dorsal fin and gill cover slightly reddish ; tips 

 of the anal and pectorals, blackish-grey ; the dorsal and caudal 

 thickly studded with round and rhomboidal spots ; back of the 

 head sparingly marked with the same ; whole body below the lat- 

 eral line, together mth the under fins, destitute of spots. 



" Ray formula : Br, 20, 20; D, 13; C, 30; A, 16; V, 10, P 

 14. Spe. Char. Adult — Body fusiform in profile ; compressed ; 

 head forming a little more than one-fourth of the total length from 

 snout to the end of scales on the caudal. Maxillary bone curved, 

 extending beyond the orbit ; anterior margin of the dorsal equi- 

 distant between the extremity of the snout and the insertion of 

 caudal ; dorsal region olivaceous, flecked with irregular black spots ; 

 dorsal and caudal fins similarly spotted. Region beneath the lat- 

 eral line unicolur, silvery along the middle of the flanks, and yel- 



