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this bounty of Providence. Fresh-water and anadro- 

 mous fishes are more exposed to the ignorance and greed 

 of man, and therefore more liable to extermination than 

 marine food-fishes. For this reason the fishery should be 

 wisely regulated. As evidence of this, the Annual Reports 

 of the Department of Fisheries may be quoted with re- 

 spect to one district — the region visited by the writer in 

 July, 1893. Only those of 1885-88 are at hand, but 

 they will serve the purpose. Lake Temiscouata and 

 Tuladi River yielded of white-fish in 1885, 600 barrels; 

 1886, 450 ; 1887, 420 ; 1888, 110. Further comment is 

 unnecessary. 



Catostomus longirostus Le Sueur. Long-nosed Sucker. 

 The Banded Sucker. 



Dr. Leith Adams reports this species occurring in 

 " Scift' Lake Stream of the eastern Schoodic chain of 

 lakes," St. Croix, York County {vide F. and F. Rambles, 

 p. 252) ; but strange to say it is not found in his list. 

 The omission is clearly an oversight. 



Wm. M. McLean and the writer took specimens from 

 the upper St. John, Madawaska, and the Tuladi lake, 

 the latter in the Province of Quebec, during a tour of in- 

 vestigation in the summer of 1893. Moreover, Indians 

 report it from the upper waters of the Tobique, but its 

 occurrence there is doubtful, otherwise its presence might 

 be reasonably looked for in the lower afiluents of the 

 main river. 



The two specimens examined by Dr. Adams were 

 from five to six inches in length ; and though they aver- 

 age two or three inches more on the upper St. John, the 

 New Brunswick representatives, so far as known, are 

 much smaller than those of the Great Lakes and more 

 western and northwestern waters of ISTorth America, 

 where they exceed the common sucker, C. Commersoni 



