Vol. XX, pp. 89-120 December 31, 1907 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



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A CHECK LIST OF THE FRESHWATER FISHES OF 



CANADA. 



BY BARTON WARREN EVERMANN AND 

 EDMUND LEE GOLDSBOROUGH. 



I". S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



While studying two small collections of freshwater fishes ol)- 

 tained in Canada in 1900 and 1903 by Mr. E. A. Preble, of the 

 U. S. Biological Survey, one made by Mr. A. .J. Woolman in 

 the Lake of the Woods in 1894, and another by the senior 

 author in the Kootenay Lake region in 1898 (all now deposited 

 in the U. S. National Museum), much of the literature pertain- 

 ing to the freshwater fishes of Canada and their distribution 

 was gone over. In order that the results of this labor may be 

 preserved and a like labor saved others interested in the fresh- 

 water fishes of Canada it seemed desirable to pursue the Avork 

 further and make as complete a check-list and l)il)liography of 

 the freshwater fishes of Canada as the literature obtainable 

 would permit. It is not claimed that either the bibliography 

 or the list is entirely complete, but all the available literature 

 has been consulted and it is believed the list given contains 

 practically all the published references to the freshwater fishes 

 of Canadian waters. Many of the works consulted are of a 

 popular nature and the locality references are frequently in- 

 definite, river basins or streams instead of definite places being 

 given. Such general references, as a rule, have been omitted. 



The anadromous fishes, such as the salmons, have been listed 

 only when they were reported from freshwater localities. The 



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