164 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST.  [VoL. XXXVI. 
placing the beginning of the dorsal opposite that of the anal. As 
usual in this group, the dorsal is considerably beyond the front of 
the anal fin. i$] 
In the American Naturalist for March, 1901, I published a note in 
regard to the planting of fish in Crater Lake, Oregon, in the summer 
of 1900, by the Rev. Edwin Sidney Williams of Saratoga, Cal., who 
was of the opinion that fish had not previously existed in the lake. 
Mr. J. S. Diller of the United States Geological Survey has 
recently informed me that he visited the lake in July last and saw in 
it a number of fish, ranging in size from six to thirty inches, the 
largest ones in many cases being white upon the back or other parts 
of the body as if diseased, and on this account being readily seen. 
The smaller ones were in good condition. The fish were spotted like 
the large trout of the Klamath Lake region. None of them were 
captured. Mr. Diller had no difficulty in getting them to take grass- 
hoppers or white pumice when thrown into the water. 
From the large size of some of these fishes it would appear that 
they existed in the lake prior to Mr. Williams's visit. They were 
doubtless results of some earlier plant from the Klamath. 
i D. S. J. 
About March ro, 1897, the State Fish Commission of California, 
through Mr. Norman B. Schofield, assistant, planted 855,000 young 
fry of the quinnat salmon in Paper Mill Creek, the chief tributary of 
Tomales Bay. 
As this stream has never contained any salmon, and is open to 
observation for its length of twenty-five miles, this operation gave 
especially good opportunities for the observation of the young fish. 
They soon dropped down from the stream in which they were 
planted, tail first, salmon fashion, and in forty-five days were found 
in considerable numbers in brackish water. Some of the young 
salmon were taken in April at Marshall, fifteen miles down the bay. 
In June they disappeared entirely. 
The next year, 1898, two million additional salmon fry were placed 
in Paper Mill Creek. 
Recently, about Nov. 1, 1901, four and a half years after the first 
planting, an adult male quinnat salmon weighing about seventeen 
pounds was sent to me from Mr. A. D. Hochfort of Point Reyes, 
as one of a large run of strange fish seen for the first time in Paper 
Mill Creek. IT DSI 
