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Adironclacks. Argyrosomus osmeriformis is a 

 «hapely little herring of Seneca and Skaneateles lakes. A. 

 a r t e d i is the common lake herring or cisco of the Great lakes 

 and Lake Champlain. A. h o y i , the lake shiner, or Hoy's 

 whitefish, is above recorded from Canandaigua lake. A. 

 prognathus, the long-jaw, the only summer spawning 

 whitefish so far as known, lives in Lake Ontario ; and, finally, A. 

 t u 1 1 i b e e, is the fine whitefish of Onondaga lake. 



Genus oncorhynchus Suckley 

 Body elongate, subfusiform, or compressed; mouth wide, the 

 maxillary long, lanceolate, usually extending beyond the eye; 

 jaws with moderate teeth, which become in the adult male 

 enormously enlarged in front; vomer long and narrow, flat, 

 with a series of teeth both on the head and the shaft, the latter 

 series comparatively short and weak; palatines with a series of 

 teeth; tongue with a marginal series on each side; teeth on 

 vomer and tongue often lost with age; no teeth on the hyoid 

 "bone; branchiostegals more or less increased in number; scales 

 moderate or small; dorsal fin moderate; anal fin comparatively 

 elongate, of 14 to 20 rays; pyloric appendages in increased num- 

 "ber; gill rakers rather numerous; ova large; sexual peculiarities 

 Tery strongly developed; the snout in the adult males in summer 

 and fall greatly distorted, the premaxillaries prolonged, hooking 

 over the lower jaw, which in turn is greatly elongate and some- 

 what hooked at tip, the teeth on these bones also greatly en- 

 larged. The body becomes deep and compressed, a fleshy hump 

 is developed before the dorsal fin, and the scales of the back 

 become embedded in the flesh; the flesh, which is red and rich in 

 spring, becomes dry and poor. Salmon, mostly of large size, 

 ascending the rivers tributary to the north Pacific in North 

 America and Asia, spawning in the fall. 



130 Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum) 



King Salmon; Quimiat Sulmoii; Chinook Salmon (Introduced) 



Satmo tshawytscha Walbaum, Artedi. Gen. Pise. Ill, 71, 1792. 



Salino quinnat Ricitaudson, Fauna Bor.-Amer. Ill, 219, 1886; Girard, Pac. 



R. R. Exp. Fish. 306, pi. 67, 1858. 

 ^Oncorhynchus quinnat Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VI, 158, 1866. 



