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below eye ; lins plain. Length 24 inches. Maine to Florida and Louisiana, 

 Arkansas, and Tennessee ; common everywhere east and south of the 

 Alleghany Mountains ; abundant in the New York lakes. The southern- 

 most record is from Crooked Lake, Orange County, Florida, (Louuberg). 

 The westernmost is from Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, and other tribu- 

 taries of White River, it being common in the Ozark region. (Meek: 

 Call.) We know no characters by which the Southern Pike (phalcra- 

 tus = affinis) can be separated from Liidus reticiilatus. (reticulatus, netted.) 



Esox relicidatiiK, Le Sueur, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1818, 414, Connecticut River, Adams, 

 Mass.; Philadelphia ; Gunther, Cat., vi, 229, 18G0; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 353, 1883. 



Esox plialeraluK (Sat) Le Sueur, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., i, 1818, 416, St. Augustine, 

 Florida. 



Efox Iruleceniliueatuf, Mitchill, Mirror, 1825, StH, Oneida Lake, New York. 



Esox ajfi)m, Holbkook, Iclith. South Carolina, 108, 18G0, Charleston, South Carolina. 



Subgenus LUCIUS. 



924. LUCIUS LUCIUS (Linnieus). 

 (Common Pike; Pickerel.) 

 Head 3i; dei)th 5; eye 6i in head, 3^ in snout; snout 2| in Iiead. H. 14 

 to IG; D. 16 or 17 (developed rays) ; A. 13 or 14 (developed rays); scales 

 123. Body moderately elongate, the back little elevated ; head rather 

 long, the eye exactly midwaj^ in its length ; middle of eye midway between 

 tip of chin and gill opening. Cheeks entirely scaly; lower half of oper- 

 cles bare. General color bluish, or greenish gray, with many whitish or 

 yellowish spots, which are usually smaller than the eye and arranged some- 

 what in rows; dorsal, anal, and caudal fins with roundish or oblong black 

 spots; young with the whitish spots coalescing, forming oblique cross- 

 bars; a white horizontal baud bounding the naked part of the operculum, 

 each scale Avith a grayish V-shaped speck. Length 4 feet. Fresh waters 

 of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and North America, north to Alaska 

 and Siberia; in the Eastern United States south to New York and the 

 Ohio River; in Europe, south to Italy and Greece ; everywhere very abun- 

 dant. We do not find any permanent character by which the American 

 Pike (estor) can be separated from the common Z«c(«.s of Europe. 



Esox hicius, Linn;bus, Syst. Nat., Kd. x, 1758, 314, Europe; Giintheii, Cat., vi, 22G, 1866; Jor- 

 dan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 353, 1883. 



Luccius vnrax, Kafinesque, Indice d'lttiol. Sicil., 68, 1810, Palermo. 



Esox estor, Le Sueur, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 1818, 413, Lake Erie, at Buffalo; 

 De Kay, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 222, 1842; Gunther, Cat., vi, 228, 1«6C. 



ff Esox vitlatm* Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Mag., m, 1818, 447, Ohio River. 



Esox auMralii, CuviER &, Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xvii, 323, 1846, locality unknown; 

 thought to be Van Diemen's Land. 



Esox depranilnx^ Le Suei'U, in Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., .\vn, 336, 1846, 

 ■Wabash River, New Harmony, Indiana; (Coll. Lo Sueur); GiiNTHEU, Cat., vi, 229, 1866. 



Esox hicjuhrosus, Le Suettr, in Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xvii, 338,1846, Crab 

 Orchard, Kentucky. (Coll. Le Sueur.) 



Esoxborens, Aoassiz, Lake Superior, 317, 1850, Lake Superior. (Coll. Agassiz.) 



Esox lucioides, Agassiz & Girarh, in Herbert Forrester's Fish and Fishing, 154, 18.50, Lake 

 Superior. 



* Described from hearsay. It may have been intended for this species or for the Muskallunge. 

 The drawing of the species shown iu the original MS. notebook of Rafinesijue shows that thi8 

 is a mythical species. 



