1911] Wagner, The Cisco of Green Lake, Wis. 77 



The fish is taken only by hook and line from November to the 

 breaking up of the ice in spring, in from fifty to seventy-five feet 

 of water. Minnows, especially shiners, from two to two and a 

 half inches in length are used as bait, also pork rind and white- 

 bait. They take only a moving bait. As an article of food, this 

 fish ranks with the very best, but owing to the large amount of 

 fat, must be used fresh, not standing storage very well. 



As to its name: Jordan and Evermann (1. c.) have shown 

 that the generic name Argyrosomus is preoccupied, and have 

 employed Leucichthys (a name given in 1874 by Dybowski to 

 some Siberian forms) instead. It has seemed to me to be pecul- 

 iarly fitting that the form here considered should bear as a specific 

 name, that of my friend and chief, Professor E. A. Birge, the 

 foremost student of the physical and faunal phenomena of North 



American lakes. 



Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey. 



March 25, 1911. 



