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y'i as long; longest anal ray 2>.4 in head, last anal ray 3 as long as the longest. Pseudo- 

 branchise well developed ; tongue with evident teeth. 



Color in spirits silvery, with puq)lish iridescence on back; scales without punctulations ; 

 belly whitish ; dorsal and caudal tins dark on terminal half, pale at base; other fins all pale. 



Length, without caudal, 8 inches; total length, g^ inches; depth, i J^ inches; head, 2^ 

 inches; eye, ^'-j inch; nia.xilla, \l inch; interorbital width equal to diameter of eye. 



Mr. Annin wrote me that the people at Canandaigua Lake told him that there 

 were large quantities of small lake shiners, as they are called, in the lake. A fisher- 

 man said that they are seen in immense schools at the top of the water occasionally, 

 and by firing a gun loaded with shot into them they can stun them so that they can 

 pick up quite a number. They are eagerly sought after for trolling bait for the 

 salmon trout founil in tiiat lake. 



41. Argyrosomus tullibee {Rn/mrtisoii). Tt i.i.iHKi: — The tuUibee occurs in 

 Onondaga Lake. A female was sent from there by Mr. Annin November 18, 1895, and 

 another of the same sex November 25, 1896. ^Ir. Annin wrote that the fish com- 

 menced running onto the shoals about November 15, and were spawning in the lake 

 November 25. They come up to the banks or gravelly shoals and deposit their eggs 

 in from three feet to seven feet of water. The species has never been caught with the 

 hook in that lake, although almost every kind of bait, the finest and smallest hooks, 

 baited with Gdiiiniancs and otiicr natural foods, were tried. 



The following notes relate to the female obtained Nxjvember 18, 1895 : 



Length to end of caudal. ........ 183^ in. 



Length of upper caudal lobe, . . . . . . . . 254 " 



Length of middle caudal rays, 



Least depth of caudal peduncle. 



Depth of body at dorsal origin, 



Length of head, .... 



Length of maxilla, .... 



Diameter of eye, ..... 



Length of longest gill-raker. 

 The mandible projects slightly. B. 8 ; D. 1 1 : A. 1 1 

 17 plus 27. 



The female received November 25, i8g6, is 15 inches long. 



New York is well supplied with coregonidae, having eight of the -■"•■°»n North 

 American species. C. quadrilatcralis is the frost-fish of the Adirondacks and the 

 Great Lakes. C. cliipeifonnis, the common whitefish, inhabits the Great Lakes and 

 Lake Champlain. C. labradoricits, the Labrador whitefish, is very abundant in the 

 Adirondacks, and is found also in the Great Lakes. Argyrosomus osincrifoniiis is a 



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V. 11; scales, 8-75-8; gill-rakers 



