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variety is the silver salmon, with forked tail. It is not very abundant, and does not run in 
‘schools.’ Weight, 15 to 18 pounds; average, 13.” He also mentions a small unspotted salmon, 
which the Indians say grows no longer than 18 inches. 
The Indians probably confuse several species under the name of satsup , and perhaps consider 
all silvery salmon, with red flesh and forked tails, as one species. 
Note.—M r. Girard describes the species as follows. The color being taken from the 
preserved specimens are, of course, unnatural, and should have those given above substituted: 
“ Sp. Ch. —Body very much depressed, rather deep upon its middle region, and quite tapering 
posteriorly. Head moderate, constituting the fifth of the entire length. Jaws equal. Maxillary 
slightly curved; its free extremity extending to a vertical line drawn posteriorly to the orbit. 
Anterior margin of dorsal fin nearer the extremity of the snout than the insertion of the caudal 
fin. Bluish gray above; silvery along the middle of the flanks; yellowish beneath.” —Girard. 
4. SALMO TSUPPITCH, Rich. 
Svn .—Salmo tsuppitch, Rich. F. B. A. Fishes, 1836,224.-— DeKay, N. Y. Fauna, IV, 1842. — Stoker, Synop 1846, 197 — 
Herbert, Supplem. to Fish and Fishing, 1850,39. [Non Fario tsuppitch, Grd Pr. A. N. Sc Phil. YHI, 1856, 
218.— Ib. Gen. Rep. Fishes, P. R. R. Reports, 1858, vol. X, 310.] 
? White salmon, Settlers on the Columbia. 
? Silvery-white salmon-trout, Lewis and Clark. 
Figures —The plate (LXIX, figs. 1—4) in the Pacific Railroad Reports, vol. X, represents the Salmo Gihbsii and not this 
species.-- (See remarks on S. Gibbsii .) 
Sp. Cii. —Convexity of dorsal profile rising gradually to origin of first dorsal, declining from thence to the tail Caudal 
forked. Head small, exactly conical, terminating in a,pointed snout. Commissure of mouth very slightly oblique. Back of body 
and head studded with oval and circular spots; sides and fins, including the caudal, destitute of spots. Teeth minute and sharp ; 
a single row on each palate bone, a very few on the anterior end of the vomer, and a double row on the tongue. [The 
foregoing description is deduced from Dr. Gairdner’s notes in Rich. F. B. A. p. 224.] 
The portions italicized in the above summary of specific characters, are those differing strongly 
from a correct description of the fish taken by Dr. Girard for this species, and described by me 
as the S. Gibbsii. 
Dr. Gairdner says that this salmon ascends the Columbia with the ekewan, (late in August 
and during September.) The formula he gives for the rays is as follows: “Br. 13; P. 13; V. 
10; A. 13; D. 12—0.” 
Sir John Richardson says that ‘‘a spine containing sixty-four vertebras, and an under jaw 
with ten curved teeth in each limb,” were all the bones that he could with any degree of 
correctness identify. (This was owing to the damaged condition of the specimens received.) 
The dimensions in detail of a specimen twenty-one inches in length are given by Dr. Gairdner. 
In this the anterior margin of the dorsal Avas one inch nearer the end of the tail than to the 
tip of the snout. The teeth w r ere “equal in size with those of the S. Gairdneri, or perhaps 
rather larger.” 
I have myself never succeeded in obtaining this salmon, but am strongly inclined to the 
opinion that it is identical with the fish now known to the settlers on the Columbia as the 
“ white salmon .”—(See remarks on the S. paucidens.) 
SALMO TRUNCATUS, Suckley. 
Short-tailed Salmon; Square-tailed Salmon. 
Salmo truncatus, Suckley, Ann. N. Y. Lyc. Dec. 1858. 
Typical specimen No. 1134, Smithsonian collection. 
Sp. Cii.—B odv fusiform ; dorsal profile moderately arched; anterior margin of dorsal fin much anterior to a point equi¬ 
distant between the nose and the insertion of the tail; head small; jaws fully provided with small teeth ; tail small, its free 
