THE FAUNA OF MONTANA TERRITORY. 127 
Salmontrout of the Kalispelm or Lake Pend d’Oreille ; Suck- 
ley, Report on Natural History of Washington Territory, un- 
der S. Gibbsii(?).* The first of this splendid salmontrout 
we met with were at the mouth of St. Regis Borgia creek, 
which flows down the east slope of the Cœur d’Alefie Range, 
and joins the Bitterroot, where the road crosses and leaves 
that river. The large specimen was brought to camp by 
Indians. An old mountaineer who keeps the ferry, said that 
they could be caught with a hook baited with a small fish, 
but these two had evidently been speared. We saw several 
of them in this stream, but all refused to bite at a fly or any 
common bait. Those caught in the Cour d’Aleiie, on the 
west slope, seemed to be identical, and I preserved a small 
one (No. 110, in alcohol). No. 95 was evidently about 
spawning, the ova being as large as peas, like those of the 
large salmon. Its colors were pale olive above, with irregu- 
ius greenish patches; sides yellowish, beneath silvery white ; 
fins and tail tinged with red; spots on back carmine, large 
and few; tail a little emarginate; length 294 inches. The 
other was slightly smaller, otherwise like this. No. 110, 
young, was darker above, and colors brighter. 
Sarmon (Salmo canis Suckley). Below the forks of 
the Spokan, the Indians were catching myriads of this sal- 
mon, and. curing even those washed ashore, in their ex- 
hausted, diseased condition, without scales, and presenting 
all the appearances described in our report of 1853, rela- 
ting to the salmon of the D Columbia. 
orth Dr.C that he did not have the 
book at hand, and was not sure that the specimen he refers to was mentioned by Dr. 
Suckley v under S. Gibbsii. As we cannot find a reference to the locality given under S. 
paragraph by Dr. 
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Gibbsii, we think that Dr. Cooper intended to to the following 
Suckley under Salmo spectabilis Gir. (Nat. Hist. of Washington Territo Oregon, 
E In Lake P. sheet of water formed in the second chain of 
Ori 
the Rocky Mountains by a dilatation of the Clark River, of much the same size, shape, 
rent character as Lake Geneva in Switzerland, I — seen a very hand 
Species of red-spottedlake trout. The spots along the flanks are of the size pian d 
peas, id are of a be autiful rose color. The length of the adult mawn 
twenty inches. Its fi arched.” Much 
valuable and interesting information relating to the Salmonidze „of the northwestern 
His 9f America is contained in Dr. Suckley's a on 
tory of Washington Territory, etc.— EDITORS 




