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ZOOLOGY. 
The salmon, as seen at that place, are as follows : 
“ 1. SeemetleeJc arrives at Colville about the 1st of June. On its arrival the jaws and nose 
are straight, with teeth scarcely perceptible. When the male and female couple, to discharge 
the duties of their watery hymen, they, like other couples, begin to grow thin. As their flesh 
declines the teeth begin to show and the snout to get crooked, whence we call them the 
crooked-nosed salmon. The Seemetleek is the largest of the species, the first to arrive and to die. 
“2. Keasoo, or Kakasoo, arrives here about the 1st of October. Whether fat or lean, it 
ahvays has a crooked nose. It is not so large as the Seemetleek. We have proof that the Keasoo 
do not all return, because they have been seen and caught in the winter and spring in many 
of the Columbia’s tributaries, i. e., Yakima, Okanagan, and Spokane Porks. They are, on an 
average, about three feet long, and each male with one female, like the Seemetleek. The female 
first spawns in a favorable place. Immediately by her side is her mate, wdio discharges his 
masculine fluid upon the eggs, whereupon the industrious couple cover their seed with sand. 
“ 3. Stzoin arrives here about the 1st of July. Straight nose always, length about two feet, 
and breeds like the rest. They are not found dead, and are supposed to return to the sea. 
“ 4. Cha-cha-ool (the ch pronounced gutteral, as in the Gaelic loch ) arrives with the Seemetleek. 
It is rather heavier than the Stzoin, marries, breeds, and dies, like the Seemetleek. Whether 
all or only some of these two kinds die is very uncertain. When these fish die from fatigue 
they are called by the natives Skee-le-ioays, a word in their language implying the lean, bad 
condition of the flesh.” 
Note. —The Indians living at Port Colville speak a dialect of the Flathead language, which 
itself is not a very remote dialect of the Nisqually .* 
The Seemetleek is probably the S. quinnat, Rich. The Cha-cha-ool, which arrives at Fort 
Colville in company with the last, corresponds greatly with the description of the S. gairdneri, 
Rich, and but little doubt exists in my mind that they are identical. The Stzoin I cannot 
identify. Perhaps it is the S. paucidens, Rich. The Keasoo seems to be the S. scouleri, Rich. 
Fort Colville is situated at the Kettle Palls, about seven hundred miles by water from the 
ocean. As the S. scouleri enter the river near the 1st of September, their progress against the 
current would seem to be about one hundred miles a week.—S. 
Specimens of the following salmon are very much wanted to complete the series in the 
Smithsonian collection, as well as to settle many doubtful points. For the convenience of those 
studying in the field, or collecting, the Indian names of those desired are here given: 
At the mouth of the Columbia true Chinook is generally spoken. The fish from that locality 
wanted are the Queachts, Quannich, Ekeivan, and Tsuppitch. These names probably hold good 
at the Dalles, where “Upper Chinook” or Wasco is spoken. Among the Dalles Indians, how¬ 
ever, and also among those living at the Cascades and at Port Vancouver, there are many who 
speak dialects of the Walla-Walla language, which is entirely different from either the Lower 
or Upper Chinook. These dialects are usually either Klikatat, Des Chute, or Yakima. Any 
fish obtained having the following Yakima names are also much wanted: 
Kah-lo, (perhaps the Op-kcd-loo of the Wascos at the Dalles.) 
Ne-ukw. 
S’han-nih, (? Sah-ivun-ugli of the Cowlitz tribe.) 
Kwin-nat-tit, (? Quinnat.) 
S’hun-no, (? Huddo, or Hunno, of the Nisquallies.) 
8 See list of species, with accompanying Indian names. 
