. The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857 . and black, with .three darker bars across body. Sides silvery, with purplish and rosytints; belly dull white; pectoral fins whiteat base, becoming yellow towards the tip and barred
. The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857 . and black, with .three darker bars across body. Sides silvery, with purplish and rosytints; belly dull white; pectoral fins whiteat base, becoming yellow towards the tip and barredwith black; tail pale grayish, with olive bars; iris bright bronze gold color. The largestspecimens are commonly the palest. This fish inhabits Shoalwater bay and its rivers in abundance, and bites readily at the hookwith almost any bait and at all seasons, but is rarely taken for food where much better fish areso abundant. The young fish, from two to four inches long, run in shoals over the mud flats at the edge ofthe advancing tide, supplying food for the large flocks of gulls, &c., which are to be seenon the shore. These little ones are so much darker in color as to seem at first distinctspecies.—C. Quite abundant at Puget Sound, where they are not unfrequently eaten by the heads are cut off and thrown away and the rest of the body generally roasted. The flesh 4 ParaJlHl ;ate :^. USr & Siir\-ev3- 4 7 P;]lel ^^ Plate JJ{
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