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MEAS-URBMBNTS 



The attention of the writer was called to this graceful little 

 whitefish by the Rev. W. M. Beauchamp and J. C. Willetts. Mr 

 Willetts forwarded numerous specimens from Skaneateles. 

 Individuals were obtained also from Prof. H. L. Smith, which 

 he received from Seneca lake. One of these specimens, 10 inches 

 long, is described above. 



The fish was then somewhat doubtfully supposed by me to 

 be identical with Hoy's whitefish, but it is now known to be 

 distinct. 



126 Argyrosomus artedi (LeSueur) 



Lake Herring; Cisco 



Coregonus artedi Le Sueur, Jour. Ac. Nat. Scl. Phila. I, 231, May, 1818. 



Lake Erie & Lewistown, Upper Canada; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 



16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 301, 1883; Bean, Fishes Penna. 69, pi. 26, fig. 48, 



1693. 

 Salmo (Coregonus) harengus Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer. Ill, 210, pi. 90, 



flg. 2, 1836. 

 Cwegonus clupeiformis De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 248, pi. 60, fig. 198, 



1842; GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VI, 198. 1866. 

 Ccrregonns harengtis Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VI, 199, 1806. 

 Argyrosomus artedi Jordan & Evermann, Bull. -xT, U. S. Nat. Mus. 468, 



1896. 



The body of the lake herring is moderately elongated, com- 

 pressed, and the head pointed. The greatest hight of the body 

 at the origin of the dorsal is one fourth of the total length 

 without caudal. The caudal peduncle is short and stout; its 

 least depth is somewhat more than one third of its greatest 

 depth. The eye is contained four to four and one half times 

 in length of head; the snout three and one half times. The max- 

 illary reaches nearly to below the middle of the eye. The lower 

 jaw projects strongly. The dorsal begins midway between tip 

 of snout and base of tail. Its longest ray equals length of 



