. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 236 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 26. Stenodus mackenzii (Richardson). Inconnu. Although no specimens were obtained by us, this species is known to occur in the headwaters of the Yukon. It lias been reported to us by Messrs. Osgood and Maddren, who saw it in the Yukon in 1900. Mr. Presnell, of Chignik Hay, says that he saw an example 10 inches long at Eagle City in L898 which had I n taken through an air hole in the ice, and he thinks he saw another, weighing 3 or 4 pounds, on For
. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 236 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 26. Stenodus mackenzii (Richardson). Inconnu. Although no specimens were obtained by us, this species is known to occur in the headwaters of the Yukon. It lias been reported to us by Messrs. Osgood and Maddren, who saw it in the Yukon in 1900. Mr. Presnell, of Chignik Hay, says that he saw an example 10 inches long at Eagle City in L898 which had I n taken through an air hole in the ice, and he thinks he saw another, weighing 3 or 4 pounds, on Forty-mile Fig. 9.—Stenodus mackenzii (Richardson Townsjend (1887) records one specimen taken in the Middle Klawak (Kobuk) in August. 1885; Nelson (1887) records it from the Yukon at Nulato, Kotlik, and Andreafski; Turner (1886), from St. Michaels: and Scofisld I L899) from the Mackenzie River. 27. Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum). Ilumpliaek Salmon; Pink Salmon. (PI. xxm—xxvi. i The humpback salmon is the most abundant salmon in Alaskan waters. It exists in millions, swarming everywhere along the shores and in waters near the sea, in streams, brooks, lakes, swamps, and brackish lagoons—in fact, in all places where fresh water, however little, may be found. Ii is ordinarily not found far from shore, and docs not run up the streams for great distances. It does not frequent the larger rivers, and is therefore almost, unknown in the Sacramento and Columbia, and even in the Fraser; but in the smaller streams it is found practically everywhere from California to Bering Sea, wherever a stream of fresh water, however small, enters the sea. Dr. Bean records it from Refuge Cove, Cook Inlet,and St. Paul, Kodiak Island; also from Colville River. Townsend (July 2 to August 25, 1885) found it in the Middle Kobuk River: not more than a half dozen individuals were seen, however, among the large numbers of fishes examined at every village of natives. Scofield I 1899 i found this spe
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