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straight. Head large, compressed laterally. Mouth large 

 oblique, with a narrowed and bluntish snout, and the 

 lower jaw projecting. The maxillary reaches the front 

 of the eye, which is large, and contained three and a hulf 

 times in head, three-quarter in snout, one and a third 

 in interorbital space. Fins well developed. The height 

 ot the dorsal equals the length of the pectoral, or 

 the distance between the papil and posterior margin of 

 the opercle. Dorsal inserted behind the anal and mid- 

 way between the front of the orbit and base of caudal. 

 The scales are small, much embedded in the skin, and 

 showing about eighty-two in a longitudinal series. 

 Lateral line incomplete, disappearing a little in advance 

 of the dorsal. Back dusky, sides with a dusky band, a 

 lighter one above ; below whitish. Dorsal and caudal 

 dusky, the other tins light, edged with dark. Head four, 

 and depth four and a half times in body. D. 8, A, 8. 

 Teeth 2.4—4.2 on pharyngeals. These specimens were 

 obtained in July after the spawning season when they 

 were likely out of condition, which may account for their 

 attenuated and compressed form, dull colour, and the 

 absence of crimson on sides and in axils of pectoral fins, 

 which is said to be characteristic of the Michigan fish. 



The specimens from Dark Lake were procured in 

 May and difi:er in many particulars from the above ; but 

 are almost the counterpart of the Anagance variety ob- 

 tained in September. The largest specimens, and scores 

 were examined, are two and three-quarter inches in 

 length. The head is very heavy ; the profile w^ell arched ; 

 there is an angle at the nape; the head is curved to the 

 nostrils ; the muzzle is short and decurved, with a 

 blunter snout. Anal fin mostly nine-rayed. Dorsal in- 

 serted farther back by two-thirds the length of the caudal. 

 Lateral line longer. An intensely black band running 



