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21. Clupea vernalis Mitchill, contiiuiecl. 



far n\) the Ktrr.uiis ; laiKl-lockcd in Cayuga, Seneca, and other lakes of Western 

 New York ; Lake Ontario (probably introduced with shad), and now appearing 

 in myriads in the Upper Saint Lawrence River. 



22. Clupea aestivalis Mitchill. Glut ukrking. 



Clupea a'6th-uH8 Mitcuill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, p. 450; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, p. 267. 

 Pomolobus (vstivaUs Goodk & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst., 1879, p. 24. 

 Pomolobits pneudoharetigus Gill (part), Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. A., 1873, p. 33. 

 Alosa Ujranrius Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1867, p. 156, pi, xxvi, fig. 3 (not of 

 ' L)e Kay). 



Atlantic coast of the United States, entering streams, hut apparently not as- 

 cending much beyond tidal waters ; it arrives later than the preceding. 



23. Clupea harengus Linn^. Sea herring. 



Clupea harengus LiNift, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 522; Gt^NTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. 



Mus.,vii, 1868, p. 415; Gill, Cat.Fish. E. Coast N. A., 1873, p. 33 ; Jordan 



& Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, p. 265. 

 Clupea elongata Le Sueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., I, p. 234 ; Storer, Rep. 



Fish., Slc, Mass., 1839, p. Ill ; De Kay, Nat. Hist. N. Y., Fish., 1842, p. 



250; Storer, Hist. Fish., Mass., 1867, p. 152, pi. XXVI, fig. 1. 

 Atlantic, abundant on the European and American coasts. Spawns in the 

 fall, and has been artificially reared at Gloucester and elsewhere by the U. Fish 

 Commission. 



24. Cyprinus carpio Linn6. Carp. 



Cyprinus carpio LiNNifi, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 525; GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. 



Mus., VII, 1868, p. 25; Jordan &, Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, p. 254. 

 " Varieties of the integuments :" 



" Cyprinus nudus BLOCH.Fische Deutschl., iii, p. 178 (Leder-Karpfen)." 

 " Cyprinus specularis Lac6p.," Hist. Nat. Poi.ss., v, p. 528." 



Temperate parts of Asia, in fresh water; introduced into Europe and North 

 America ; widely distributed in the United States by the U. S. Fish Commission. 



25. Carassius auratua (L.) Bleeker. Gold-fish. 



Cyprinus auratus LiNNli, Sy.st. Nat., I, 1766, p. 527. 



Carassius auratus Bleeker, "Cypr., p. 255, and Atl. Ichthyol. Cypr., p. 74;" 



GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VII, 1868, p. 32; Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. 



Fish. N. A., 1883, p. 253. 

 Japan; China; introduced into Europe and the United States; now well es- 

 tablished in many of our eastern streams. 



26. Leuciscus idus (L.) subsp. orfus L. Golden ide. 



Cyimnus orfus LiNNli, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 530, 



Leuciscus orphus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xvii, 1844, p. 224, 



'• Idus melanotus var. Heckel & Kner, Siisswasserf., p. 150," 



Central and northern parts of Continental Europe (Giinther); introduced 

 into the United States by the U, S. Fish Commission, but not yet distributed. 



27. Tinea vulgaris (L.) Cuvier. Tench. 



Cyprinus tinea LiNN^, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. ,')26 (trinca). 



Tinea vulgaris CvviKR, Rtigne Anim., II, 1817, 193; Cuvi1:r & Valenciennes, 



Hist. Nat. Poiss., xvi, 1842, p, 322, pi. 484 ; GOntuer, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 



VII, 1868, p. 264. 

 Europe; introduced into the United States by the U. S. Fish Commission. 

 Occasionally found in the Potomac River, into which it has escaped from tho 

 ponds in Washington. 



United States National Museum, 



iVauhinijlon, June! , 1884. 



