Ftsi) Represented in Colored Plates. 



Red Tl)roat Trout. 



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O describe the black spotted trout of the 

 Rocky Mountains is very like an ex- 

 plorer entering a labyrinth with many 

 windings and turnings, which, if followed, will 

 lead the explorer, if he is an ordinary explorer, 

 to but one conclusion — that he is lost, "hook, bob 

 and sinker." The black spotted trout comes in 

 series. There is the red throat trout (also called 

 cut-throat trout, but that is not a pretty name) 

 Salmo mykiss, without a single frill; the Columbia 

 River trout, Salmo mykiss clarkii ; the Yellow- 

 stone trout, Salmo mykiss lewisi ; the Salmo 

 mykiss gibsii, without a common name, as yet; 

 the Lake Tahoe trout, Salmo mykiss henshazfi ; 

 the Utah Lake trout, Salmo mykiss virginalis ; 

 the Rio Grande trout, Salmo mykiss spilurits ; 

 the Colorado River trout, Salmo mykiss pleuriticus; 

 the Waha Lake trout, Salmo mykiss stomias; 

 the Yellow finned trout, Salmo mykiss macdonaldi ; 

 and that is as far as the ichthyologists have got 

 with mykiss up to this time, unless I have inad- 

 vertently skipped some. 



But I have mentioned a sufficient number of 

 varieties to show that the black spotted trout is 

 a bewildering fish, taken together or in sections. 

 My first acquaintance with one of these fishes, and I really do not know which one, 

 for at the time I did not know there was so many of him, was made many years ago 

 in Utah and Wyoming before they became States, and I then thought the fish I caught 

 in Bear River and elsewhere was a very excellent fish on the hook and on the table, 

 and altogether a well disposed and respectable black spotted trout. Since I have 

 learned of the aliases under which the fish is known in different parts of the 

 West, I have had my doubts. 



ONE WAY. 



