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AMERICAN FISHES 



A POPULAR TREATISE 



UPON THE 



GAME AND FOOD FISHES 



OF 



NORTH AMERICA 



WITH HSPECIAI. REFERfiNCE TO HABITS AND METHODS 



OF CAPTURE 



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BY 



G. BROWN GOODE 



Assistant Secretary of //te Smithioiiian lustiliiiion ; Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society of 



London, the Deutsche Fischerei Verein, the National Fish-Culture Association of Great 



Britain, the Northern Fisheries Society of fapan, etc., etc.; late United States 



Commissioner of Fisheries, and Commissioner to the International 



Fisheries Kxliibitions in Berlin and London. 



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WITH NUMEROUS lELUSTRATiONS 



New- York : 

 W. A. HOUGHTON. 



1888. 



