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Portland, Ore., very kindly sent a perfect mounted specimen of the bird from which 

 to make the colored drawing and plate. 



The nomenclature of certain fishes is referred to in another portion of this report, 

 but one inconsistency was not mentioned. The Game Law of the State provides a 

 close season and other regulations for a fish under the name of Salmon Trout. We 

 have no salmon trout in any waters of the State, and the fish should be called by its 

 proper name, Lake Trout. The lake trout is wholly unlike the salmon, and why it 

 should have been called salmon is beyond comprehension. There is a fish called 

 salmon trout in Europe, and it is a migratory fish like the salmon. There is a fish in 

 Canadian waters called salmon trout, and that, too, is migratory. The steel head 

 trout on the Pacific Coast is called salmon trout, and that also is a migratory fish. 

 Years ago Jordon declared that it was wrong to call our lake trout by the name of 

 salmon trout, and a former Fisheries Commission of this State passed a resolution 

 that the fish in question should be called by no other name than lake trout, but 

 the statutes still adhere to the misnomer. 



The landlocked salmon is another example of inapplicable names for our fishes. 

 It is not landlocked and never was landlocked in its original habitat, whether that was 

 Maine, Province of Quebec, Labrador, or Sweden. It has been established that the 

 original common name of the fish (in the Indian tongue) was ouananiche, pronounced 

 as though it were spelled whon-na-nishe, and that is what it should be called, whether 

 it is found in the Dominion of Canada, Maine, New Hampshire or New York, rea- 

 soning from the standpoint of the scientist who calls a bass " trout-like," because it 

 was the first name applied to the fish. If the first scientific name applied to a fish 

 should hold, why not the first common name, particularly when it is appropriate, musi- 

 cal, distinctive, and a departure for once from such names as " tin mouth" and " red 

 eye ? " Reforms of this kind can be worked much more effectively through the 

 fishery newspapers and the great body of fishermen, but a Fisheries Commission may 

 put the seal of approval upon them. 



Under Chapter 335 of the Laws of 1895, $4,000 was appropriated to purchase 

 additional land and water (spring) for the hatchery at Pleasant Valley, and the pur- 

 chase was made on the 28th of September, 1895. On the land purchased are located 

 some of the finest springs in the State. There is a large volume of constant flowing, 

 pure, cold water running nearly full-head in the dryest season. The temperature of 

 the w r ater at surface of the storage pond is 44 degrees, in August, and 42 degrees 

 beneath the surface. 



It is expected that so much of the additional land as may be available will be 

 utilized to construct rearing ponds to raise yearling fish. This hatchery, although 

 the last to be built, promises to be one of the best in the State. 



