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vania the Little Pickerel, or Trout Pickerel, is common in the Ohio and its tribu- 

 taries. Prof. Cope mentions it also as an inhabitant of the Susquehanna River, in 

 which it is probably not a native. 



The U. S. Fish Commission obtained a moderate number of specimens in the 

 Lake Ontario region at the following New York localities: Black Creek, tributary of 

 Oswego River, Scriba Corner, July 15 ; Lakeview Hotel, 7 miles west of Oswego, July 

 17; Wart Creek, July 24; Great Sodus Bay, August 16; Outlet Long Pond, 4 miles 

 west of Charlotte, August 7; Marsh Creek, near Point Breeze, August 21. This fish 

 grows to the length of i foot and is, therefore, too small to have much importance 

 for food. 



74. Chain Pickerel ; Green Pike {Lucius rcticnlatus LeSueur). 



Esox reticitlatus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mu.s., 353, 1883. 

 Esox rcticnlatus Bean, Fishes Penna., 90, pi. 29, fig. 55, 1893. 

 Esox tridcccDtlineatus Mitchill, Mirror, 361, 1S25, Oneida, N. Y. 



CHAIN PICKEREL. 



The Chain Pickerel is known under other names; it is the Jack of the south, the 

 Federation Pike of Oneida Lake, N. Y., the Green Pike of the Great Lakes and the 

 Eastern Pickerel of many writers. It docs not occur west of the Alleghanies, but is 

 found from Maine to Florida and Alabama east of this range of mountains. It 

 lives in ponds, lakes and streams and occurs within the same territory as L. aiiicri- 

 canus, but farther away from the coast. (After Eugene Smith, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N. Y., No. 9, p. 29, 1897.) 



At Water Mill this Pickerel occurs in or near brackish water at the east end of 

 Mecox Bay, and it is in very plump condition on account of the abundance of small 

 fishes on which it feeds, for example, the Silversides, young Sunfish, and small 

 Killifishes of several kinds. 



Dr. Meek notes that the species seems to be subject to individual variation. In 

 many respects the specimens from Cayuga Lake appear to be intermediate between 

 rcticnlatus and vcnniculatus. It is not very common. 



The Pickerel is common in ponds and streams of the Hudson Highlands, accord- 



