No. I.] 



GAR-PIKE AND STURGEON. 



hand. At the height of the spawning season large numbers 

 (thirty) have been snared and speared at a single locality with 

 but temporary alarm to the rest. Early in the season, when 

 the fish were scarcely ripe, the writer found, however, that 

 rarely more than two or three could be taken before the disap- 

 pearance of all, — at least for a period of several hours. And 

 the snaring of a female was found to give a greater alarm than 

 the removal of several males. The note of Garman as to the 

 cautiousness of the fish in scouting to determine the where- 

 abouts of an enemy was fully confirmed. Timidity of the 

 fish seems, moreover, indicated in the writer's attempt to 

 lure male fish by means of a recently captured spawning 

 female tethered over the spawning bed. Males were shortly 

 attracted, but after one had ventured for a moment close to 

 the female a general alarm was taken, and the fishes did not 

 return. 



The eggs almost immediately after fertilization become, as 

 Garman and others have noted, excessively sticky, and acquire 

 firm attachment wherever they happen to lodge, on stones 

 (mainly), sticks, or water weeds. Over these collectors they 

 are found well scattered, as the accompanying drawing (Fig. i) 



Fig. 1. 



indicates. The stone fragments, loosely piled together, serve 

 to attach eggs on every face, and not infrequently their under 

 sides, being the cleanest, collect the greatest number. The 



