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seems impracticable to compile from American authorities a satisfactory 

 account of its life history, and in default thereof, frequent references must 

 be made to the studies of European observers. 



In Eastern America, the Pike is abundant as far south as Ohio ; its 

 northward range has not been determined, but since its CNistence on the 

 Island of Kodiak, in Alaska, has been demonstrated by Dr. Bean, 

 there is every reason to believe that it will be found pretty generally dis- 

 tributed throughout British America. It has not been recorded from 

 Greenland, or the islands of the Polar Sea. Its Eurojiean range extends 

 from Britain to Silesia, and doubtless east to Kamtchatka, throughout the 

 Scandinavian peninsula, and north in Lapland, even beyond the limits of 

 the birch-tree. It inhabits most of the rivers and lakes of European 



