HOW THE TROUT CAME TO CALIFORNIA. 283 
The trout in the main Kern River grow to a large 
size. Others have clambered into the mountain 
meadows, and they are very small and very bright 
in color. Those separated from the rest by the 
falls of Agua Bonita! in Volcano Creek, on the 
flanks of Mount Whitney, are now noticeably dif- 
ferent from any other which we know. The scales 
are very small, and barely touch each other; the 
fins and bands are yellow, and not red; the cut- 
throat mark is yellow too, and the black spots are 
profusely scattered everywhere. In color like the 
Yellow-fin Trout of the Colorado Lakes, this Golden 
Trout of Mount Whitney is different in other re- 
spects; and of all the trout on record it is smallest 
and prettiest. From Agua Bonita anglers have 
taken it to the east side of Mount Whitney, and it 
is now found in the rivers running down into 
Owen’s Lake. 
The trout ascended the San Joaquin, sent up 
also side colonies not only to the Kern but to 
King’s River, the Merced, Tuolumne, Stanislaus, 
Calaveras, Moquelumne, and all the other moun- 
tain tributaries. What changes took place in these 
streams we do not know, for it will take a long 
time to go a-fishing in them all. There is enough 
yet to be found out in the Sierra Nevada to in- 
terest ichthyologists and anglers alike for many 
future generations. 
The San Joaquin meets the Sacramento end to 
end, and the two break through the Coast Range 
to the sea. In the Upper Sacramento is occasion- 
1 The Golden Trout of Mount Whitney is Sa/mo gairdneri agua- 
bonita Jordan. 
