THE GAME PISHES OP THE WOELD 



intended to return to Tahoe last summer and continue the search, but 

 funds were not available as Congress failed to pass the appropriations for 

 so long a time. But we had a student, Mr. Pomeroy, who was attending 

 the boats at a resort there, and who became interested ia the trout. Mr. 

 Pomeroy is a bright student and a careful observer, and it was not long 

 before he found a gentleman who not only knew the fish for which we 

 were looking but who also had a very fitting name for it, the royal silver 

 trout. This was Mr. Ralph Lowe. It was not long before he caught a 

 royal silver trout and sent it to me fresh, by express. That settled it. 

 Two more specimens were soon caught, one by Mr. W. P. Lyon and one by 

 Mr. Pomeroy. It will be known now as Salmo regalis, the Royal Silver 

 Trout. It is one of the most beautiful fishes that I have seen, not Mke 

 other trout with which we are f amiUar, but having a beauty all its own, 

 to be contrasted rather than compared with other trout that I know. It 

 is reported to be a deep-water fish, never being caught near the siuiaoe, 

 yet one of these specimens furnished evidences of long continued surface 

 feeding. It seems to be entirely unknown to members of the State Fish 

 and Game Commission, but I hope that they wiU try to find out 

 something about it before it disappears, and it seems to be on the 

 road to extinction, if the information that I have concerning it is at aU 

 reliable. 



' As you no doubt know, there are some relationships between the 

 fauna of the Lahontan basin and that of the Klamath. In both are found 

 species of the remarkable sucker-Uke fishes Chasmistes, and I should not 

 think it very strange if both contained a similar deep water trout, a trout 

 much like the one which I have described. Chasmistes, and some other 

 fishes appear to belong to an old fauna, which once had a more wide dis- 

 tribution than at present, and I beheve that the new trout is a member of 

 that same old order, now passing. A representative of this same trout 

 is to be looked for in Klamath Lake, unless my guessing is wide of the 

 mark.' 



Mr. Alfred Beebe, who has fished the Pelican Bay region, 

 Klamath Lake, Oregon, U.8.A., very kindly sends me a little 

 table, including the years between 1899 and 1908, showing some 

 of Ms fly-fishing catches of rainbow trout : 



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