Fishes . red over the whole surface ofthe body, above and below. This is an excellent game-fish, andfrom Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake it is brought in large num-bers to the markets of San Francisco. In the depths of LakeTahoe, which is the finest mountain lake of the Sierra Nevada,occurs a very large variety which spawns in the lake, Salmohenshawi tahoensis. This reaches a weight of twenty-eightpounds. In the Great Basin of Utah is found a fine trout, very closeto the ordinary cutthroat of the Columbia, from which it isderived. This is known as Salmo clarkii virginalis. In UtahLake it reaches a
Fishes . red over the whole surface ofthe body, above and below. This is an excellent game-fish, andfrom Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake it is brought in large num-bers to the markets of San Francisco. In the depths of LakeTahoe, which is the finest mountain lake of the Sierra Nevada,occurs a very large variety which spawns in the lake, Salmohenshawi tahoensis. This reaches a weight of twenty-eightpounds. In the Great Basin of Utah is found a fine trout, very closeto the ordinary cutthroat of the Columbia, from which it isderived. This is known as Salmo clarkii virginalis. In UtahLake it reaches a large size. In Waha Lake in Washington, a lake without outlet, is founda small trout with peculiar markings called Salmo clarkii boii-vieri. In the head-waters of the Platte and Arkansas rivers is thesmall green-back trout, green or brown, with red throat-patch 128 SalmonidiE and large black spots. This is Salino clarkii stomias, and it isespecially fine in St. Vrains River and the streams of Estes Fig. 236 —Green-back Trout, So/oto stomias Cope. Arkansas River, Leadville, Colo. In Twin Lakes, a pair of glacial lakes tributary of the Arkansasnear LeadN-ille, is found Salmo clarkii macdonaldi, the yellow-finned trout, a large and very handsome species living in deepwater, and with the fins golden yellow. This approaches theColorado trout, Salmo clarkii pleuriiicus, and it may be derived
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