52 Salmon at the Antipodes. 



time. The earliest salmon commence to 

 ascend in November, and they increase in 

 numbers till March. They are then very 

 abundant, and continue so till the beginning 

 of June. During that and the following 

 month the numbers diminish. In August 

 they again increase, but diminish gradually 

 till November, at which period they return to 

 the sea ; just at the time when the younger 

 salmon of about a year old commence their 

 first ascent. There is also in this river, in 

 considerable numbers, a large trout commonly 

 called the ' salmon trout ' of the Sacramento. 

 " The habits of the Californian salmon, at 

 the time of spawning, are in all respects 

 similar to those of the ordinary salmon, but 

 with the formor the eggs are much less 

 abundant. In specimens of equal size there 

 is a difference of nearly one half in the 

 number of eggs ; thus, while in the Salmo 

 solar there are generally about as many 

 thousands of eggs as the fish weighs in pounds, 

 the Salmo quinnat only produces about 500 

 eggs to each pound weight of the fish. . . . 

 The time of incubation is about 40 days, 

 and in another month the umbilical sac is 



