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NOTES AND LITERATURE 



Mr. Chamberlain's paper contains many valuable facts in 

 relation to the life of salmon, the fruit of nearly four years 

 observation in southern Alaska. 



In the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 

 (XX, 1907) Evermann and Goldsborough give a check list of 

 the fresh-water fishes of Canada. 145 species are recorded, with 

 a complete list of localities. 



In the Proceedings of the same society (XXI, 1908), Dr. 

 Evermann describes two new fishes {Fundulus meeki and Salmo 

 nelsoni) from streams in lower California. The last-named, an 

 isolated troutlet from Mount San Pedro Martir, is especially 

 interesting as occurring farther to the southward than any 

 other known trout. It is apparently an offshoot of the rain- 

 bow trout of California, Salmo irideus. 



In the same Proceedings (XXI, 1908) Jordan and Grinnell 

 describe another isolated dwarf waif among the trouts, as 

 Salmo evermanni. This troutlet occurs on the headwaters of the 

 Santa Ana River, on Mt. San Gorgonio, in San Bernardino Co., 

 California. It is shut off from the parent form, Salmo irideus, 

 by a waterfall, and in isolation it has undergone considerable 

 change. Its origin is parallel with that of the three species 

 of golden trout of the high Sierras. Salmo evermanni, living 

 on gray granite, is dull in color with none of the scarlet shades 

 of the golden trout. 



In the same connection Jordan and Snyder describe and figure 

 the great Kamloops trout from Lake Kootenay in British Co- 

 lumbia. The specimen figured, sent by John P. Babcock, Fish 

 Commissioner of British Columbia, weighed 22 pounds. This 

 species is an offshoot of the steelhead trout, Salmo rivularis. 



In the Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, XXV, for 1906 

 (October 25, 1907), Jordan and Snyder record a number of 

 new species from Hawaii, with several plates, four of them in 

 color. The new species are Caraux dassnn. Ariommus ever- 

 manni, Rooserd I in aloha, Thahtssoma ncanis and Scaridra ai'rosa. 



The advent of Japanese fishermen in Hawaii has caused many 

 very rare deep-water fishes to be common in the markets ; among 

 these is the type species, Rooseveltia brighami, of the genus 

 named for the naturalist Theodore Roosevelt. This species, 

 scarlet and gold, is one of the most brilliant in Hawaiian waters. 



