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lateral line, 82 tube-bearing scales and eight in an oblique series from the ventral 

 origin to the lateral line. 



The length of the head is one-fourth of the total length to the end of the 

 lateral line. The distance of the nape from the tip of the snout is nearly one-third 

 of the distance from the tip of the snout to the origin of the first dorsal. The 

 length of the maxilla is one-third of the length of the head. The mandible is one- 

 half as long as the head. Lingual teeth present. The eye is as long as the snout 

 and one-fourth as long as the head. Gill-rakers long and slender, the longest five- 

 sixths as long as the eye; there are 55 on the first arch, 35 of which are below the 

 angle. The insertion of the dorsal is nearer the tip of the snout than the end of 

 the middle caudal rays. The longest ray of the dorsal equals the length of the 

 ventral and is contained seven times in the total length to the end of the middle 

 caudal rays (six and two-thirds times in length to end of lateral line). The length 

 of the pectoral is one-sixth of the standard body length. 



LAKE HERRING. 



The insertion of the ventral is midway between the tip of the snout and the end 

 of the middle caudal rays. When the ventral is extended the distance of its tip to 

 the vent is only one-fourth of the length of the fin. In this respect the species 

 differs widely from A. artedi. 



The colors are, back grayish silvery ; sides silvery ; dorsal and caudal with darker 

 tips. 



53. Lake Herring (Argyrosomus artedi LeSueur). 



Coregomis artedi JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 301, 1883; BEAN, 



Fishes Penna., 69, pi. 26, fig. 48, 1893. 



Corogonus clupeiformis DEKAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 248, pi. 60, fig. 198, 1842. 

 Argyrosomus artedi JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 468, 1896. 



The Lake Herring frequents shoal waters and occurs in enormous schools, as 

 one may judge from the quantity captured in Lake Erie. Its food consists of 



