The food and game fishes of New York: . GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 331 head; pectoral fin r>ne-ei_L:;hth of total length without caudal. B. 11 or 12; D. 11 ;A. 12. Scales from 137 to 177, usually about 150-28; pyloric caeca 42; vertebrae38-1-20=58. Color olive green above, sides silvery, head, back, dorsal and caudalfins profusely covered with small black spots, no red between the rami of the lowerjaw. The Steelhcad Trout is found in coastwise streams from Southern California toBristol Bay, Alaska. It spawns in the late winter and early spring; ripe eggs wereobtained at Sitka, Alaska, June 10
The food and game fishes of New York: . GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 331 head; pectoral fin r>ne-ei_L:;hth of total length without caudal. B. 11 or 12; D. 11 ;A. 12. Scales from 137 to 177, usually about 150-28; pyloric caeca 42; vertebrae38-1-20=58. Color olive green above, sides silvery, head, back, dorsal and caudalfins profusely covered with small black spots, no red between the rami of the lowerjaw. The Steelhcad Trout is found in coastwise streams from Southern California toBristol Bay, Alaska. It spawns in the late winter and early spring; ripe eggs wereobtained at Sitka, Alaska, June 10. Spent fish of this species are frequently takenwith the spring run of the King Salmon. The economic value of the Steelhead is very great; the fish reaches a weight of30 pounds, though the average weight is under 20 pounds, and the non-anadromousforms seldom exceed 5 or 6 pounds. From information furnished by Mr. Annin it appears evident that some of theeggs of Trout received at Caledonia, N. Y., many years ago from the McLeod River,. STEELHEAD. Cal., as Rainbows, really included both Rainbows and Steelheads. He finds certainfemales producing deep salmon-colored eggs while in the same pond and receivingthe same food as other females which furnish very light-colored, almost white, of the females also differ from others in going to the spawning beds nearlytwo months earlier. It is now known also that the McLeod contains a small-scaledform of the Rainbow, known to the Indians as the iios/n-r, and this also may easilyhave been sent to the east under the name of Rainbow. Striking differences in theappearance and habits of so-called Rainbows introduced into the various Stateslend color to this supposition. Steelheads were obtained for the New York aquarium in November, 1896, fromthe U. S. Fish Commission. They were hatched from eggs shipped from FortGaston, Cal., to the station at Craig Brook, Me. The length of the trout whenreceived ranged from 4 to ^Vi inches. After one
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